@farah I'm wondering if some AuDHD/ADHD noses are hyper sensitive? Smell is apparently a large part of the sense of taste.

Mine is super sensitive:

Sitting at a traffic signal? I can smell someone smoking several cars away.

Cars without pollution controls, like these idiots with the backfiring exhausts? I can smell the pollution, almost makes me nauseous.

Something going bad in the fridge? I can tell wayyy before anyone else.

I also cannot deal with any scents in my clothing. The scent ends up on my fingers, which I can smell should I happen to touch my nose/face. This is awful! 😬

@farah One of our nephews served in the US Army in Afghanistan and survived a close encounter with an RPG. He was left with shrapnel in one of his body, chronic migraines, and no sense of taste.

Brains are very delicate things!

@farah I went to school with a supertaster. She loved the blandest food because it was rich with flavour to her. Easy test too — just need blue food colouring and a reinforcement ring for binder paper

@farah
I had long covid and my taste was about 70% gone for a long time. Then I read a few articles on taking low doses of vitamin A and it worked. Most of taste returned. Unfortunately I had to stop because it was interfering with my pain meds. And even after I stopped a lot of my taste remained.
Caution: taking too much vitamin A is dangerous so check with pharmacist for the right dosage.

@farah They Might Be Giants has an awesome song about supertasters.