• TheOakTree@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    How do you find out if you are a supertaster? I’m curious because growing up I couldn’t stomach any vegetable that was bitter. Broccoli, brussel sprouts, celery, etc. were enough to make me gag just from the flavor. Nowadays, I can cope with the bitterness by focusing on other flavors and textures but I’ve definitely been in positions where I have a single bite of celery and then can’t muster up the courage to eat for a solid hour.

    • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      I don’t think I’ve ever been diagnosed other than the fact that I can smell things others can’t. I can smell when people are sick. Cancer has a smell. I sometimes I encounter people and don’t know what the smell is but know they are sick. I can smell cockroaches in a house. Even if you can’t see them I can smell them in the walls. All in all I would choose to have just a regular sense of smell since many perfumes and those damned plug in air freshener just smell like noxious chemicals to me. Its just like walking in a room and someone is screaming. Only I’m the only one there that can hear it. Not fun.