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ASD/SPD gag reflex... (light hearted)

Chance

Chance

"all who wander are not lost" - Tolkien
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I have a massive sense of smell. I think that over active smeller makes me have a massive weak stomach.

A family member just sent this to me... Said, "They died laughing seeing this... actually thinking it was me for a second"... No it wasn't me, and now I'm not sure if I need to plan for a funeral or not? Apparently not, because they seem to be alive enough to send it to me...

However this is what I do A LOT.... It can even happen at the dinner table if someone opens a container of sour cream or cottage cheese... My only problem is sometimes I actually puke in the process of the gagging. Any body else get like this? Or am I odd man out?

 
Chance said:
I have a massive sense of smell. I think that over active smeller makes me have a massive weak stomach.

A family member just sent this to me... Said, "They died laughing seeing this... actually thinking it was me for a second"... No it wasn't me, and now I'm not sure if I need to plan for a funeral or not? Apparently not, because they seem to be alive enough to send it to me...

However this is what I do A LOT.... It can even happen at the dinner table if someone opens a container of sour cream or cottage cheese... My only problem is sometimes I actually puke in the process of the gagging. Any body else get like this? Or am I odd man out?

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My "aspie" friend has said he has a heightened sense of smell and can tell what the ingredients are in something being cooked. I don't know if he does this or not- he's never said so.
 
Yes, this happened to me once in a posh French restaurant, when I got a bit of chicken cartilage/grisle in my mouth, it made me gag and want to be sick, I made a run for the toilet. Fish innards make me gag, or dirty toilets, or runny eggs.
 
Progster said:
Yes, this happened to me once in a posh French restaurant, when I got a bit of chicken cartilage/grisle in my mouth, it made me gag and want to be sick, I made a run for the toilet. Fish innards make me gag, or dirty toilets, or runny eggs.
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Now comes the SECOND STAGE of this disgusting nightmare... I can visualize what you are saying and I do not actually gag (or I haven't yet), but oh I want too... holy geez.
 
My only immediate flight/fight response in an olfactory sense is relative to cigarette smoke. Though yes, I have a very strong sense of smell that doesn't necessarily serve me well. :eek:

One of those traits I freely admit that I wish I didn't have. :oops:
 
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I lost my sense of smell and taste about 5 year's ago from caughing asthma and although they came back, have never been the same again.

When I got past the horror of losing both, I realised I could take advantage of not being able to smell anything and it was amazing!
 
Judge said:
My only immediate flight/fight response in an olfactory sense is relative to cigarette smoke. Though yes, I have a very strong sense of smell that doesn't necessarily serve me well. :eek:
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Oh yes, that too. I can't stand cigarette smoke.
 
Progster said:
Oh yes, that too. I can't stand cigarette smoke.
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Like you and Judge... same here and way worse if someone lights up a Joint... That rotten sweet smell and the smoke is way past what I can deal with... So I never have to worry much about the 420 circle...
Fridgemagnetman said:
I have an acronym for situations like this
(@Bolletje )

MFT. (Or GT in england)

Music festival toilets.
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Just the thought of going into the restroom at a big crowded place, and those disgusting smells, the hollow sounds, the echoes of alarming body noises, the weirdness of being in a place with all these guys with their junk in their hands... NO FRIKKN WAY...

I don't hardly ever enter a public restroom (it has to be a no option last possible resort)... That is highest on all things that gross me out at levels I don't even want to think about... I just ate breakfast... : )
 
Chance said:
Like you and Judge... same here and way worse if someone lights up a Joint... That rotten sweet smell and the smoke is way past what I can deal with... So I never have to worry much about the 420 circle...
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That's interesting. You see in my own case, purely organic smells don't seem to impact me like wholly inorganic ones like cigarettes can do.

I may or may not like any number of organic smells, yet they won't send me into a fight/flight response either. Go figure. o_O

I'm just grateful to learn that this is a sensory issue relative to being on the spectrum and not a mere allergic reaction. Like many of my traits and behaviors, this is one that didn't come up until around puberty.

Another big mystery solved for me.
 
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Chance said:
Like you and Judge... same here and way worse if someone lights up a Joint... That rotten sweet smell and the smoke is way past what I can deal with... So I never have to worry much about the 420 circle...


Just the thought of going into the restroom at a big crowded place, and those disgusting smells, the hollow sounds, the echoes of alarming body noises, the weirdness of being in a place with all these guys with their junk in their hands... NO FRIKKN WAY...

I don't hardly ever enter a public restroom (it has to be a no option last possible resort)... That is highest on all things that gross me out at levels I don't even want to think about... I just ate breakfast... : )
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LOL, Your powers of description are beyond.............whatever
 
Chance said:
Now comes the SECOND STAGE of this disgusting nightmare... I can visualize what you are saying and I do not actually gag (or I haven't yet), but oh I want too... holy geez.
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same with me any onomatopoeic Word (can't say the other word it would make me feel sick)
that's how sickly I am I seem to have progressed onto panic attacks for everything.
so I avoid thinking about a lot of things .
 
Chance said:
Like you and Judge... same here and way worse if someone lights up a Joint... That rotten sweet smell and the smoke is way past what I can deal with... So I never have to worry much about the 420 circle...


Just the thought of going into the restroom at a big crowded place, and those disgusting smells, the hollow sounds, the echoes of alarming body noises, the weirdness of being in a place with all these guys with their junk in their hands... NO FRIKKN WAY...

I don't hardly ever enter a public restroom (it has to be a no option last possible resort)... That is highest on all things that gross me out at levels I don't even want to think about... I just ate breakfast... : )
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it's the one thing that saddens me I couldn't go back to northern Australia -the men's toilets were indescribable ,probably at night time they weren't quite the same ,it hit you when you were about 20 feet away ,the women's toilets had no smell what so ever.
 
Normally people open the refrigerator, take out some food and close the refrigerator.
I opened the refrigerator today. It smelled cheese. Let's just say I've put some food in the refrigerator.. :D

I didn't know this was an ASD thing. I thought it was just me!
 
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Ellie.s said:
Normally people open the refrigerator, take out some food and close the refrigerator.
I opened the refrigerator today. It smelled cheese. I didn't even have the time to close the refrigerator. It was nasty. :D

I didn't know this was an ASD thing. I thought it was just me!
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no it's not autism it's sensitivity to smell it can happen if you have cancer or an infection probably your body's way of protecting you from dying .
 
Streetwise said:
no it's not autism it's sensitivity to smell it can happen if you have cancer or an infection probably your body's way of protecting you from dying .
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Thank you Streetwise but I've always been like that so I don't think it's cancer or infection. If it's not autism, it's just me then!
 
Sense of smell is the one sensory issue that is NOT heightened with me.
I've had a lot of allergic rhinitus most of my life.
It has almost taken away my sense of smell, otherwise
I probably would have that too.
 
What is odd is humans seem to be the only species that have a sense of disgust in the first place, sometimes like in this case it can be overactive.

A dog for instance wouldn't even have the slightest issue drinking out of a toilet bowl, it would never understand why it was disgusting to us and it most definitely wouldn't gag, in fact I don't think any other animals would gag at anything we would find disgusting.
 
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