Superpower. Synesthesia

Superpower. Synesthesia
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These people are able to sense the taste of speech, to see letters, numbers and even musical notes in color. Synaesthesia is a neurological trait or condition that results in a joining or merging of senses that aren't normally connected. The stimulation of one sense causes an involuntary reaction in one or more of the other senses. The heroes of our program are ready to pass synesthete tests.
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[@tylercottam3274]

My strongest form of synesthesia is ordinal linguistic personification, and I have always subconsciously seen gender in numbers:
Female: 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9
Male: 5
These associations have been strong in my mind for as long as I can remember. I don’t have color associations though. I could go deeper into personality traits but that would take too long for mine

[@lucyfyrearchoftwilight9282]

I believe I know what synesthesia is and is also the answer to a 100 yr old question in evolution.
It is the answer to how could a sensory organ evolve when there is no area of the brain dedicated to processing incoming signals from the newly evolving sensory organ. How would a new sensory organ bestow an evolutionary survival advantage when the signals could not be processed?
Simple... Synesthesia. The new organs' signals are sent to other sensory areas that are already developed and presenting different sensory information to the brain. So, a new light-sensitive cluster of cells (that one day would evolve into a full-fledged eye) would get its light-sensing signals processed in say the sense of touch, or the sense of hearing if that had already evolved.
So, in the above example, when sensing light, the creature may feel a "touch" on the skin in the direction the light is coming from. A prey creature with no eyes would benefit greatly from simply being able to avoid areas that feel like a touch and therefore would actually be hiding in the shadows away from predators.
Basically, it is an evolutionary mechanism that is malfunctioning in individuals experiencing this phenomenon.
That's my hypothesis and posted it in a few places over the past 15ish years. Hoping someone with more academic credentials will see it and will inspire them to bring it forth. Over the past 15-20 years I've looked around and have found nobody making this connection. I'm pretty sure it is correct.