It Stinks.
Aug. 30th, 2005 07:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrissaWhen you are a scent-oriented person, when scent is the first thing in your sensory world, articles like this one are at the same time a relief and tiresome. "Humans can smell where something is coming from"? Gee, who'da thunk? This is like if I walked up to one of you visual people and said, "Hey, did you know, I've done a study, and many humans can use their eyes to determine what color things are! Not all, mind you, but many! They don't require a spectrum analysis or anything!"
That's where the tiresome bit comes in. The relief comes in because people will try to argue with me about what I can possibly smell. "You can't possibly tell that just by smelling!" No, wise guy, you can't possibly tell that by smelling; not the same thing. I bump into things a lot more when I have a cold, because I can't smell where they are. I don't know why so many people are averse to scent-data, but I wish they'd relax and stop trying to project that aversion on the rest of us, namely me.
That's where the tiresome bit comes in. The relief comes in because people will try to argue with me about what I can possibly smell. "You can't possibly tell that just by smelling!" No, wise guy, you can't possibly tell that by smelling; not the same thing. I bump into things a lot more when I have a cold, because I can't smell where they are. I don't know why so many people are averse to scent-data, but I wish they'd relax and stop trying to project that aversion on the rest of us, namely me.
