Meet the man with a rare condition who can taste, smell and feel words - who reveals he'd never date a Kirsty because the name smells of urine. Henry Gray, 23, has always been able to taste, smell or have a feeling associated with words for as long as he can remember.
He discovered he had lexical-gustatory synaesthesia in 2009 - after his parents and teachers picked up on him commenting on the tastes for his classmate's names. Synaesthesia is a neurological condition that results in the joining or merging of senses that aren't normally connected - those affected can often taste or smell when hearing, speaking, reading or thinking about words.
For Henry the name Boris Johnson tastes like ‘squishing a hard-shelled beetle with his foot’ and Harry Styles is like ‘hair sticking up like telephone wires'. He also says Donald Trump is like a 'deflating rubber duck'.
