A Mango-Shaped Space Book

First of all, synesthesia is not a disability. You wish you had it. Since it's my username and something I have, I have personal experience on the subject.
My sort of synethesia equals seeing colours in music based on the key, smelling music, tasting it. Feeling the texture of it on my skin. Songs can have a temperature or a time of day like as song can be in the key of D or something and feel like a night sort of song or in the key of D minor and be grey like an overcast day.
I can also taste words, associate people and concepts with scents that don't exist.
Mia, the girl in this book has a sort of synesthesia I don't have; associating words and letters with colours, or seeing shapes and colours in the air. She's freaked out by it. I don't remember being freaked out by my synesthesia other than wondering why pianos don't have red keys.
She felt like she couldn't tell anyone about the way she saw the world and when she did, it was treated a bit like an illness.
But, soon she learned that it's not an illness, but a fantastic gift that is just AWESOME.

I wonder if I should try acupuncture for a better synesthesia experience?
Also, it was frustrating that the cat was called Mango because it kept making me picture an orange cat.

Update 10/31/16

I still like this book. Still haven't tried acupuncture. I still think it's treated a bit like an illness than something that spices up your life though. I've never lost my synesthesia due to trauma. Not even when I lost Bernie, my rabbit or my grandmothers. Does that happen to other people?