Read the excerpt from “For Some, Pain Is Orange” by Susan Hornick.

From “For Some, Pain Is Orange” by Susan Hornick

At times [people with synesthesia] were viewed as mentally defective, at other times idealized as artistically gifted. Often, they weren’t believed at all. Only in the past decade or so, using controlled studies, in-depth interviews and computer-aided visual tests, have scientists begun to identify and catalog the staggering variety of these automatically induced sensations.
Which paraphrase accurately conveys the information contained in the excerpt?


A. People with synesthesia were mentally flawed, gifted, and doubted before scientists identified and cataloged these sensations using studies and tests.

B. People with synesthesia were seen as mentally flawed, gifted, or doubted. Now, scientists are identifying and cataloging these sensations through studies and tests.

C. People with synesthesia were viewed as mentally flawed, idealized as gifted, or doubted. Recently, scientists staggered upon them in studies and tests.