For anyone who's really interested, you can, albeit with a great deal of effort, be taught to be a synesthete -
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26578-people-taught-synaesthesia-learn-to-read-in-colour.html
I don't see letters as colors. I'm not sure learning a certain color for a letter of the alphabet encompasses synaesthesia. How would you teach someone to feel a color, or teach them to see music? Can I teach you to feel the warmth of the color Purple? When you get angry at something, can I teach you to color everything hues of red and green?
I am also somewhat color blind. But, I see colors correctly but not with my eyes.
BTW,
@xvi , there is nothing to hate. I learned at an early age that other people did not know what I was talking about. So, I shut up. Then, sometime in 6th grade, I was introduced to an assistant principal, with the help of my Mom, because I found school work easy and boring. He gave me Logic problems to solve. Each week they got more difficult, until I was solving ones he could not. That was when he discovered my synaesthesia. He promised to keep my secret.
I generally don't talk about it. Aside from this Forum, I've not even told my Family, only a few people have this knowledge. It effects me, no reason to try and explain it to everyone. I told an old girlfriend, during a movie, how I felt. She did not understand, I left it at, "I see colors in things."
I don't feel special, just see things, colors, when other people don't. No big deal.