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I can smell your fabric softener, no matter how long ago you used it. Artificial perfumes of any kind just murder my sinuses. It suuuucks.
I also can hear electronics, even just the lights, if that's all that's on. Maddening, because I can almost never find real silence. It's why I love camping.
I experience the first set of powers, and I hate it. Every detergent, shampoo, deodorant I use is "sensitive", "baby formula" or whatever.
And a few years ago some deodorant company started using some I guess artificial compounds that just pushes the air out of my lungs, it's so bad. I can not only smell it, it digs into my forehead.
I get this with pretty much all perfumes, scented candles, tobacco smoke (oh god the tobacco smoke) and extinguished matches and candles.
With some people I wonder how they can exist with so much perfume poured over themselves that I can't breathe while walking behind them. I just don't understand.
An upside of being smell sensitive is that it helps with debugging electronics. Burnt parts smell very obvious, and I can even smell hot stuff like heatsinks.
I can relatively easily reverse engineer recipes I like.
I forgot to mention electronic vapes with, I don't know, banana strawberry flavoured vape juice 🤮
Every time I say I hear electricity, people think I lie. But it makes noise! I hear my blood too.
I wish you could try stuff beforehand in a quiet place to see if it's gonna bother you with annoying quiet noises. Unfortunately that's not really a thing. Luckily electronics has gotten better over time but a lot of stuff still does it, just usually less.
Can you do that thing where you flex some internal muscle and hear a loud rumbling that I assume is rushing blood? It's hard to explain. I think the muscle is related to the jaw, or maybe ear movement. It's not externally perceivable, but it's useful on an airplane.
Is that something like swallow or gently blow through the nose with closing your nose? This is what I'm suppose to do to release pressure on my eardrum, but I have no idea what you mean.
Those things pop your ears, yeah, but they're not what I mean, and they don't make the noise. Oh well.
I've never been a big fragrance guy. When I found out about people like you, I decided to just go fragrance free. If it's not a big deal to me and it gives a few people headaches to be near me, might as well just not do it. There are some tangential benefits. My deodorant irritates my armpits less now. My hair oil used to irritate my skin if it got on my forehead. Now it doesn't.
I've got one light in a room that makes a quiet whining noise when on, seemingly only after a minute or so (maybe after it warms up a bit). Thankfully I can just keep it off just fine, but occasionally I'll turn it on for a bit more brightness, and realise it's still on a while later by the annoying noise.
The beeping on my monitors power led drives me insane if it’s on standby mode and flashing