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so as some of you may know, I can't smell. I've never been able to, except for VERY strong things SOMETIMES. i've been like this all my life and only today did I FINALLY look it up online..

it's called anosmia and I AM NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO HAS IT. @_@ WOW.
I know this is all probably going to sound really stupid to you all but seriously.. It's very exciting to know this. I found this blog entry about it
(http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2003/02/on_people_who_cant_smell.shtml)
and reading it it was just like.. wow. I mean it's still rare, but .. it's not all in my head, i'm not a crazy. other people have all the same problems with it i do, too! focusing on textures when they eat, not knowing when food has gone bad, freaking out about leaving the gas on or using toxic chemicals.. and the biggest one..

AGONIZING OVER PERSONAL HYGIENE. gonk it's really embarrasing to talk about but seriously, I never know if I stink or not, or if my clothes stink, or any of that. It's absolutely mortifying, especially since I don't even know how bad of a thing it is to smell bad. So for all I know I've been horrendously offending people with my stench all my life ._.; or my agonizing is foundless and I'm mostly fine, apart from the few times people have actually told me. gonk I tend to ask my family members alot when I'm about to go out, just to be sure. That's all i can do Dx

anyway, it's cool, reading the comments on that blog cuz there are people with exactly the same experiences as me. biggrin people who confused tasting things in the air with smell, who didn't realize they couldn't smell for a long time, who weren't believed when they said it.. interesting news for me anyway.

edit: HAHA
"The sense of smell is almost completely useless in modern western society: many people with congenital anosmia are rarely aware of it during everyday life. (But not everyone - see Jeff's comment on the front page.) The logical inference from this is that smell is being evolved out of the human race, and that anosmic individuals are the most evolved members of the species. ;->"