A young British man with a strange ability is hard to believe

 The strange ability of a British man is sparking a worldwide wave of interest, as he suffers from a rare condition that can taste, smell and feel words.

 Henry Gray, 23, has always been able to taste, smell, or have a sense of words.

 Henry discovered he had so-called gustatory lexical synapsis in 2009 - after his parents and teachers taught him to comment on tastes for the names of his classmates. Smell when you hear, speak, read or think about words.

For Henry, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's name tastes like "crushed a hard-footed beetle", and former US President Donald Trump's name tastes like "a deflated rubber duck".

Singer Harry Styles' name evokes a feeling of "hair stuck together like telephone wires," actress Cameron Diaz's "bright disco ball spinning slowly" and star Jennifer Lawrence like "sniffing on the inside."

Henry, of Newcastle, asserts that he "always associated words and names with tastes, smells and feelings".

He adds that a name is “always stronger when I first hear a name or get to know someone, but I can usually tune in to it in everyday life.”

As a child, Henry assumed that everyone had the same ability to taste or smell words until his parents and teachers inquired about his comments on the names of his classmates, describing, for example, “Lucy is like a big red lollipop.”

"Most of the time, I absolutely love having a sense of humor and it doesn't get in my way," he says. "I work in a coffee shop, so whenever I look at people's ID card, I feel very strongly about the taste and smell."

According to the British newspaper "Mirror".

The condition affects him, he says, mainly with nouns, but other words such as "stop" have a musty smell and "because" is like a "split wooden clothespin".

"I like the name Alice, which is apple slices, and my sister's name and Hailey's name, which is like soft, soft music," he said.

“As for” one of the worst, Ian’s name is “it’s like having a sticky, clogged, waxy ear, like feeling an earache.”

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