How Well do you Breathe Through your Nose?

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I have always had trouble breathing through my nose

I breathe well through my nose.

I generally don't breath through my nose. I have multiple allergies and nasal polyps. Between the two my nasal cavities are pretty much closed all the time.

Mouth breather since the beginning.

OP: are we every going to find out what your theory is about noses and autism?!

I chose "very well." Unless I'm sick with a cold, I breathe out of my nose. I hate breathing out of my mouth, because my lips get severely chapped within a very short period of time. My lips will get mildly chapped just from a 30-minute dental appointment.

I've been wondering that too. I answered simply because I really don't like breathing through my nose, probably due to hay fever. But I really cannot see what it could have to do with autism. Hope this isn't going to be another mooncanvas!

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Autistic dad to an autistic boy and loving it - its always fun in our house

I have Autism. My communication difficulties mean that I sometimes get words wrong, that what I mean is not what comes out.

I've decided it is a troll.

Some person snickering into their sleeve at how thick we all are and how gullible that we can be that easily wound up to believe something so utterly ridiculous.

Well OP, FYI we aren't. We are just honest people who don't play those stupid games. Sad for people that do though, if such puerile things make such great entertainment for them.

And another FYI, is that many things in the world might seem strange but are true nevertheless, and thankfully many of us on WP have such creative and unique ways of thinking that we are able to entertain ideas that may seem odd to those that can only think (dully) inside the box. That's why there was an expression created "Strange, but true." and the other one "Truth is often stranger than fiction." So if your sleeve is full of dribble from all your snickering and guffawing, perhaps you might like to chew on that now.

I can't even be bothered to report this to a mod. P'raps someone else can...

Ok guys I don't have all day to spend on this site, thats why I haven't replied yet. But the reason was that I read in a book called "Shyness and Love" by Brian Gilmartin that half the people he studied had difficulty breathing through their nose. This was a book on people that had difficulty approaching potential romantic partners. This was written in the 1980s, before the term Asperger's was invented. A lot of the subjects had autistic-like symptoms.

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I was just curious to see how many people had difficulty breathing through their nose on this site. I had difficulty myself, but wasn't aware of it since I breathed through my mouth. It's important to breathe through the nose since breathing through the nose is associated with freedom. If anyone here has difficulty breathing through the nose, they should see a doctor, since it's a health issue.

It seems that about 40-50% of people have it on this forum, which parallels his book.

I support neurodiversity, but I also support autism research. I believe that there are some people with autism that need treatment. From reading the book, I learned that I have this problem, and got treatment for it. I can think and socialize better now.