Published on 12, July, 2020
I'm filling in an online assessment form for autism and quite a few of the questions are about smell, i'm not sure my sense of smell is that extreme, but in general is it the idea that autistic people's sense of smell is more or less accute than your average man in the street?
it varies across autistic people. But like mentioned some people wearing perfume i can smell at 100 yards, same with non filtered cigarette smokers.
but i grew up in a very clean environment so i dont knpw what effect that had on my development. Put another way i remember when i moved to a city for first time and the whole place stank of smoke and fumes all the time to me, "how do these people live here ?".
you can also train your smelling, and tune it into certain smells, so it isnt static either