What is this and why am I fucked up?

[Sophgay]

I can't smell gas anymore. Still alive.

What about sounds?

I made a fuck-up the other week, when I went to the mental health assessment. They asked if I ever heard things that weren't there, and (because I'd decided I'd answer completely honestly so I got the right help) I said yes. But only because of my AS I think. The sound of the radiator (you know when it's quiet and you can hear the sounds it makes) sounds like people talking sometimes, and things like that. So I hear voices when no one's there, but only because I'm mishearing things that no one else notices (I am hypersensitive to background noise). It's annoying though because now I'm scared to talk to them about a real problem I have, incase they associate it with that and think I'm crazy.

[Callaway]

Another time, I smelled natural gas odorant smell in our house, so I went straight out and bought a carbon monoxide and gas detector and installed it in the basement where the furnace is and it detected nothing.  Then I replaced the furnace filter since it had been a while since I had replaced it and the smell went away.

[Sophgay]

I am a bit paranoid about carbon monoxide now. I get paranoid about things if I read about them, and I read about it a lot after Michael and Sophie died. I do that with illnesses as well. That's why I'm scared to research symptoms when I'm ill; I find things that are worse than I actually am, and convince myself that I have that.

[Callaway]

I am a bit paranoid about carbon monoxide now. I get paranoid about things if I read about them, and I read about it a lot after Michael and Sophie died. I do that with illnesses as well. That's why I'm scared to research symptoms when I'm ill; I find things that are worse than I actually am, and convince myself that I have that.

Detectors for CO aren't very expensive, so you could get one if you are concerned.

[Natalia Evans]

There are smells I like or can stand but lot of people can't stand it. Unleaded gas, permament marker, that spray stuff teacher use on the boards to wipe it off, skunks, that perfume stuff that sprays.


If someone uses too much spray perfume on them, it seems like lot of people can't stand the smell because they complain about it to the person who is wearing it. The skunk smell used to bother me but I got used to it but lot of people still hate the smell so I wouldn't bother getting the smell into my own home, same as all the other smells I mentioned. I wouldn't want it on me either.

I always wonder why is it that I like the smell of unleaded gas and permenent markers, and that spray stuff teachers use on their boards, and they also don't bother me. Is it me being insensitive to smells? Sometimes I can't smell something other people are smelling and it takes me longer to finally notice it. Sometimes I don't even smell something. I probably have something wrong with my sense of smell so it makes me not smell everything I am supposed to smell. Maybe there is something in the unleaded gas smell other people are smelling I can't smell, same as with the other smells that I don't mind.

[Sophgay]

Oh fuck I love marker pens
I sniff marker pens, but I know I shouldn't
And nail polish

I haven't seen any CO Detectors
I will look them up sometime

[Persona]

I am double-jointed 

[Parts]

I have lots of sensory issues either to much information or not enough with some overlap thrown in for good measure also

SG you are not alone with liking those smells I have always liked skunks and unleaded gas your to young to remember regular leaded gas that was even better

Double jointed also but beginning to pay the price in aches and pains as I get older:(

[Sophgay]

I still remember the petrol station down the road
They've replaced it with a retail park now
There's a McDonalds there
Also a KFC, a Pizza Hat, a Blockbusters and about fifteen sofa shops
Sofa is like my name if I were a god
And Shops is an anagram of me if I was plural

[vodz]

Sounds like you are experiencing synaesthesia Soph.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

Lucky!

[Sophgay]

Oh I never thought of that

I used to think I might be like that a few years ago

I get the numbers/days/letters in colour stuff too, but I think a lot of people do that

[Calandale]

I farted.

[Parts]

I farted.

Loud or smelly?

[SovaNu]

4 is yellow, 3 is orange... 5 is blue... 2 is white. 7 is a brownish green...

I can't smell gas anymore. Still alive.

What about sounds?

I made a fuck-up the other week, when I went to the mental health assessment. They asked if I ever heard things that weren't there, and (because I'd decided I'd answer completely honestly so I got the right help) I said yes. But only because of my AS I think. The sound of the radiator (you know when it's quiet and you can hear the sounds it makes) sounds like people talking sometimes, and things like that. So I hear voices when no one's there, but only because I'm mishearing things that no one else notices (I am hypersensitive to background noise). It's annoying though because now I'm scared to talk to them about a real problem I have, incase they associate it with that and think I'm crazy.

you should specify to them what you meant with the voices.

[SovaNu]

i don't smell gas cuz we don't use gas.