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I briefly took some classical japanese translation classes in college while studying for a (modern) japanese major and actually gave up because I was so frustrated. "What do you mean we still don't know what this character means???" Then I went on to easier things, like computer programming. I'm not kidding.

My question is, how do you deal with the frustration? If I don't have something to show for my work after a few days I feel like a failure, even if intellectually I know I'm far from it. It's something I've had to struggle with personally so I'd like to hear from someone who surely bangs their head against the wall more often than I do (that's a compliment).

My wife got this after a very severe TBI. We spent 10 years together before she even realized she couldn't smell! I suspected she had a bad sense of smell and so did she, but we decided to do a blindfold test... Turns out she smells literally nothing. Hahahaha.

She also has trouble reading the room. Not sure if that's related to smell but I thought I'd let you know she has the same issue.

We have been together so long I definitely forget she can't smell (we spent a decade thinking she could!) Almost every single day I ask her "smell that??" She always looks at me with the exhausted wife face.