Smelling Colors with my Mental Problems XD

Many accounts of individuals with Aspergers syndrome and other Autism Spectrum Disorders report unusual sensory and perceptual skills and experiences. They may have superior performance in tasks like visual search problems that require processing of fine-grained features rather than entire configurations. They may be unusually sensitive or insensitive to sound, light, touch, texture, taste, smell, pain, temperature, and other stimuli, and they may exhibit synesthesia, for example, a smell may trigger perception of color; these sensory responses are found in other developmental disorders and are not specific to Aspergers syndrome or to Autism Spectrum Disorder. There is little support for increased fight-or-flight response or failure of habituation in autism; there is more evidence of decreased responsiveness to sensory stimuli, although several studies show no differences.

I've been able to smell things that nobody else could for my whole life, some cases where it has saved our lives. The same goes for hearing, touch, and sight.

This must be why I like art so much. I can see the tiniest details in a drawing. I can hear the faintest sounds. I can smell dinner in my room on the second floor with the door closed over the smell of my room.

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• Aspergers
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• Smelling
• Colors

[RealityShowGuru]

sorry, the last part to that was supposed to say "visual and auditory" hallucinations. To be quite honest, I have had more experiences of sensory and olfactory hallucinations than visual and auditory ones. And I have not had very many visual or auditory ones and I question whether I have ever had them at all. But feeling strange things really did mess with my head. All it did was intensify my delusions and make me think up stranger ideas. Its so hard cuz it feels so real!!

[pyroasta]

@RealityShowGuru

You know what the best part about these delusions are? The more you go into thinking about them the more crazy things you can create. If you like to draw or any kind of art you are more able to find more inspirations.

[jjazman1234]

Try it with two objects that you aren't familiar with. Have someone bring in a red object and a green object that you have never smelled before and see if you can determine the color while blindfolded. That would be really impressive. If you can do that then you may need to be examined by some world renowned scientists at Harvard.

[pyroasta]

@jjazman1234

so far all i can do is two of the same object, with solid color of different variety, and i still haven't mastered it.

I tried it with similar cards in the video, and the results improved, but were not perfected. Plus I can only do it so far in a room with minimal scent.

[jjazman1234]

I think when people refer to autistic (or asperger) people being able to smell colors it isn't that they can "literally" smell the colors, but rather when they look at a color it triggers parts of the brain that recognize smell and therefore it seems as if they are smelling it. That would therefore not work if their eyes are closed. Whatever is happening with you is something totally different. Maybe each card smells a little different and you can remember the difference. To be cont....

[pyroasta]

@jjazman1234

ok no seriously, the colors actually have a smell. Think of cool and warm colors. Blue smells like when it's cold outside. You know that kinda bitter smell when you go outside and can hardly breathe at times? that's blue.

Red smells like warm weather with a hint of the feeling of pollen in the air.

Mixed colors like green purple and orange are mixes of the two

Green is kinda pollen-like, with the smell of bitter cold

Purple is the mix of the hot and cold smells.

[RealityShowGuru]

very interesting. I have schizophrenia and have experienced increased sensitivity to sound, riding in a car was at one time highly noisy to me. My family has noticed I can hear faint sounds that they did not hear. U describe it so well. In schizophrenia, they are called sensory and olfactory hallucinations: things u can feel (sensory) or smell (olfactory) that are not really there. I have had both. But they are rare in schizophrenia as more people have visual hallucinations.