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omg that sounds horrific and I feel for you. if I'm being honest I would prefer to have never experienced it because loss and grief can be powerful emotions and you can certainly grieve the loss of a sense. to also have it combined with paralysis is just even worse. I hope you are okay and if you ever need a random on the internet to reach out to and just talk about the anosmia, please let me know!

yes and no. I definitely love strong meats and cheeses, but not the rest of antipasti. but I really love pasta, but I think that's because I'm just big on carbs. so there's definitely an element of preference.

texture however, does matter a lot. I'm not a fan of anything hard, or overly sticky or slimy.

This is such a good question. A lot of the reason for me posting this was to see how other people respond to smell to sort of get to know myself better, so this is really interesting.

I obviously get hungry, and if I see food that looks good I feel it in my stomach (you know when you're hungry at a restaurant and you see food coming and you just get a bit excited), but I wouldn't say that I salivate. I also certainly have a very random eating schedule which may be related to the fact that I'm not responding in a Pavlov-ian way to food (as such).

I can’t really taste the difference between kinds of candy, and all wine tastes the same... disgusting.

for her many many wonderful qualities, my mum doesn't have a lot of patience and was always very busy, so I'm sure she just didn't "notice". that said, when she sat me down to have the serious conversation at 18 she was like "be honest with me", so I think she'd picked up on it a bit, but yes you would think that after many conversations telling me my breath smelt weird that she would have picked up on the fact that perhaps I just couldn't smell it.