Having extra-sensitive senses IS awesome!

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I, like probably most people on WP, have extra-sensitive senses. It does get quite annoying sometimes, but I think there are way more positive things about being extra-sensitive than there are negative things. Like yesterday, I was eating pizza from 'Pizza Hut' with my family. I bit in to a slice of pizza, and it tasted horrible and sour! So I said to my mother, "Is it possible for humans to detect the presence of food poisoning in the foods they eat?" My mother is used to my weird questions, so she replied, "No it's not, only if the food is rotten," then she added, "Why, does your pizza taste bad?" I said yes, and she said, "Let me try it," so I let her eat the whole slice and she didn't notice anything wrong with the pizza. Then about four hours later, she was 'struck down' by food poisoning. Vomiting, dihoreeah, etc.
So if any of you guys have any stories about how having extra-sensitive senses saved your lives, then post. (or else...lol)

I am overly sensitive to tough myself....This time you're atypical sensitivity worked out....mom will trust you next time.

Maybe you will become the family "taster" like in the old Roman states!

I have a better sense of taste than my family but i assumed that it was because im the only non smoker....... but it would make sense with AS

My mother's mad I'm insisting she get rid of a new skillet she got. When it heats up, I can smell chemical fumes coming off of it. No one else can smell it. None of the previous skillets we've had did that.

That's an awesome talent, OP! I'll be wary of eating at Pizza Hut again...

I am sensitive to unusual tastes as well. My mum often gets mad at me because I won't eat the dinner because she has tried to make it "interesting" "just for a change" by putting some new kind of spice or other ingredient in it. I'm not being fussy, I just really can't eat things that taste weird to me.

She tried buying a different brand of Quorn burgers the other day, it was disgusting, it tastes like actual meat because it had all unidentified bits in it, which is one of the reasons I quit eating meat in the first place. Ew. *shudders*

This is kinda random: when I am trying something I haven't tried before (which is not often, I like to stick to what I know food-wise), I can't decide whether I like it or not in the first bite. I have to take a few bites and then think about it for a few seconds before I decide. Does anyone have this??

Yeah, I'm like that with coffee. I still don't know whether I like it or not!

Yes. My first actual reaction is usually dislike (change sucks!). This is why I normally try new foods at least twice.

I find it great when it comes to sex.

A strong sense of smell can be good and bad. I can smell when meat or milk are just starting to turn--not enough to bother anybody else, but enough for me not to be able to eat them. But I once had to cut down a privet hedge because the smell of the flowers made me sick to my stomach.

having stronger senses can give some good experiences,but it does depend on how strong those senses are,as it's completely crippling and profoundly life affecting if accutely affected by them.

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report that to pizza hut if havent done already,they might give some free vouchers for more pizza.

i have hyper-sensitive hearing & eyesight to an extent, loud noise hurts, especially high frequencies.. & bright light/vivid colours often "hit" my eyes hard so to speak.. certain textures & smells make me very uncomfortable, like strong perfume/deodorant is suffocating ..
&food is quite a problem, i can't eat things once i have been put off (&usually gag at the time)because of the texture&/or taste..
is kinda a curse & a blessing, i wish people wouldn't talk so loud tho..

I have hper and hypo issues with different senses.
there are also fluctuations over the course of days - some days and it is a nightmare and others it is ok.

Boon and curse.

mhh...I have no sense of smell really, I can smell about fifteen things really. Weird enough I can't smell two of the things that are ment to be very potent, garlic and, um, male body liquids

But I have good hearing, today I heard my dads car from two blocks away, its not all that loud. My friends thought it was weird

My eyesight is also very good, far better than average.

Best of all, I'm pretty immune to pain. Some types of pain hit me hard but cutting open my elbow or getting hit in the face doesn't hurt really

That happens with me too.
I'll smell the milk and be like 'mum, does this milk smell funny to you?' And she'll sniff it and say 'it's fine.' So we end up drinking it and feel queasy.
I think I'll go smell that leftover chinese food, or throw it out. Meat does taste weird to me if it's spoilt.

I am sort sensitve to light and touch (only sometimes sound) and it can be both good and bad. Good at parties/discos because everything is just so over the top and just feels fantastic when I'm looking at the lights and stuff. Bad when the sun's in my eyes, a toddler is screaming his/her head off and people keep brushing against me.

While visiting my dads farm in Australia I tested the electric fence by grabbing it with my two hands. Most of the time the sensation was light. Only once it was strong. The electric fences in Australia operate on a lower voltage so they don't start fires when a weed touches the wire. A lot of things I can't smell,, especially the garbage in the house until its nasty smelling to my mom. But I can smell something being given off from the charger for my moms portable drill. In a few vehicles I have driven,, when I was going really fast around a curve I could tell whether 1 or 2 of the front tires was sliding (called understeer or push in the racing community).