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DippidyDoppody59 karma

Nothing at all, I used to fart all the time and made no effort to be polite when I was a kid because I didn't know.

DippidyDoppody28 karma

I do ask and people normally just give simple answers, I asked my friend if brake cleaner smelt the other day and he just said it smelt petrol-y. The most I've gotten is someone saying "it smells, but its not a bad smell, but its not like its pleasant, but its a strong smell". I guess the people I ask don't feel the need to give me more and I don't press them either, but I would like it if people did tell me more when I ask. Its kinda like explaining colour to a blind person though

DippidyDoppody24 karma

I have a strong memory of being in grade 2, and the teacher telling us that lady beetles give off a really foul smelling yellow liquid. I found one and poked it a bit and it squirted on my hand, and I smelt it and thought the teacher was lying. Idk why that stuck with me. I guess I always kinda assumed that I could smell, why wouldn't I, but whatever I was sniffing didn't have a smell. It wasn't until I was 14 or 15 or so and becoming more and more aware that I was like, hangon wait everyone says this smells and I get nothing from it, what??? I didn't see a doctor about it until I was 20 and then it was 2 years on a waiting list to confirm it with an MRI. I had to figure it all out for myself.

DippidyDoppody13 karma

It's a really common thing for people to say their other senses are better, but it's not really true. Your born with the senses you have, and they are only so strong. But when you lose one, you pay more attention to the rest. So my sight and hearing and touch aren't any better than yours, but I use them more so I get more from them. Its not like turning the sensitivity up, but more like not throwing away as much input as a normal person does, if that makes any sense.

I tend to look around more than other people, and I pay more attention to random noises. You know how its just a thing that most people never look up? I do. I had a theory that smell as a sense gives you a lot of information about your immediate environment and I subconsciously look around to compensate, but I might just be someone who does that anyway, I don't really know.

I don't think its worth it to try block your sense of smell to see what its like. Its probably going to be really hard and you'd need to do it for a while to get an idea of what its like to live with. I think its definitely made me more understanding of others and their struggles, especially other invisible struggles, but I don't think thats an anosmia exclusive.

DippidyDoppody7 karma

Thats basically how I understand smell, that its like tasting something but you feel it in your nose. Cool that lavendar smells like it tastes, I'm gunna go find some macaroons after the holidays