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Hyperosmia - a heightened sense of smell and / or taste

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I was just wondering if there was any evidence, including anecdote, of hypersomia being associated with neuroatypical people on the autism spectrum.

I can’t find any reference to this on Pubmed, so I thought I’d ask here.

Some people are said to be ‘super tasters’ because of this.

I say ‘smell / taste’ because the two are closely related - though it may be a case of synæsthesia when they are so very closely related as I find them to be myself.

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  • Greetings to the person with a very interesting Username... This reply is mixed with My own opinion, so may or may not be helpful.

    SMELL is just like any other muscle/talent - if exercised it gets better but largely in domesticated Humans, it is, to put it mildly, not at all very good. If a person has been sensitized to a certain smell (e.g. as a child or in training) then they are better at picking up certains smells than others & so like Twins, everyone is different due to experience...

    With regards to Taste and Synasthesia, I would say that that is when a smell is either absorbed by the Tongue or by the Brain first/most... e.g. when professional Wine/Water tasters swill the Wine/Water in their mouths... then they may Inhale, and begin to wax lyrical about what the "taste invokes". 

    Apart from all of that, Smell is, as I said, NOT very good in domestic Humans only due to it not being all that useful. Also it is often disguised by very strong Chemicals in the Economy, e.g. Fluorine, Chlorine, Levulose... and then there are artificial mixtures to consider. I think, after all that waffle, I really mean in short, because Smell is usually blinded in Domesticity, then that is why the research into it is so poor. Good Luck to You, though. Plectrum's answer was probably the best so far.

    Again, to sum up My own post, because Smell is a thing 'which cannot be seen' (by domestic humans) then that is why research is so scant, confusing, or not all that profitable to figure out using expensive precise machines.

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  • Greetings to the person with a very interesting Username... This reply is mixed with My own opinion, so may or may not be helpful.

    SMELL is just like any other muscle/talent - if exercised it gets better but largely in domesticated Humans, it is, to put it mildly, not at all very good. If a person has been sensitized to a certain smell (e.g. as a child or in training) then they are better at picking up certains smells than others & so like Twins, everyone is different due to experience...

    With regards to Taste and Synasthesia, I would say that that is when a smell is either absorbed by the Tongue or by the Brain first/most... e.g. when professional Wine/Water tasters swill the Wine/Water in their mouths... then they may Inhale, and begin to wax lyrical about what the "taste invokes". 

    Apart from all of that, Smell is, as I said, NOT very good in domestic Humans only due to it not being all that useful. Also it is often disguised by very strong Chemicals in the Economy, e.g. Fluorine, Chlorine, Levulose... and then there are artificial mixtures to consider. I think, after all that waffle, I really mean in short, because Smell is usually blinded in Domesticity, then that is why the research into it is so poor. Good Luck to You, though. Plectrum's answer was probably the best so far.

    Again, to sum up My own post, because Smell is a thing 'which cannot be seen' (by domestic humans) then that is why research is so scant, confusing, or not all that profitable to figure out using expensive precise machines.

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