I discovered something weird about NTs today!

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I was waiting in line at supermarket to pay my cable bill. There was a little girl there moving one of those metal poles that held the red ropes that helped keep the line of people zig zagged. Everytime the little girl moved the pole it made a realistic farting sound. Each time the pole made the fart sound the people in the line sniffed as if they were trying to get a whiff of the fart. She did it four times and each time like clock work the people in the cue were sniffing like they had colds. The little girl's mother made her stop she said thats disgusting making that noise, so I said that was not disgusting the people sniffing trying to get a whiff of a fart was disgusting. The mother, the little girl, and me had a good laugh and no one looked in our direction. Is that common among NTs all wanting to smell a fart? When I hear a fart I try to get out of the area to keep from smelling it.

Last edited by Todesking on 07 Jun 2010, 11:44 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I think it may be a natural reaction! For god knows what reason!

P.S. Best thread ever.

People sniff to vent displeasure. I don't think they're conscious of it most of the time.

I breathe through my mouth until I can escape.

What Nostromos said makes sense too.

Hilarious.

LOL

OMG that’s so funny!!

I must say that this is quite an observation. Well, I speak for myself when I say that if I hear the sound of a fart, I sniff because I am trying to ascertain that what I am hearing is indeed what I think it is. As in “the sound of the fart heard” does it equal “an actual fart”. The only way to know for sure is sniff because sound does not always equal the actual “deed” .

Another reason is that if a person is at a public place and they really need to let go a fart It common place for people to distract others by creating a loud sound just to cover up the sound of the fart. So the fart and the “loud sound” will go off at the same time. That way people do not know that a fart has been unleashed – until they smell it!!

So sniffing confirms whether it is safe to breath or not.

Apart from me who's old enough to remember the farting chairs in CJ's office (The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin)? I've avoided leather furniture ever since.

Vanilla_Slice

Maybe it's just me, but I think I'd rather smell it than taste it.

I didn't get where I am today without seeing CJ and his farting chairs.

My first reaction to the title of this was: "Just ONE weird thing?"

I think it's just morbid curiosity, like pulling on a loose tooth even though it hurts. You know it's bad, but you can't help yourself. It's a reflex thing like stimming is, but it's not stimming, it's just a thing our brains are wired to do. And some people think that their neuro group has a monopoly on weired, ha!

(I'm not exactly NT, but I'm just ADHD and quirky so in some ways I am, some ways I am not).

I noticed people have a tendency to sniff when they feel uncomfortable.

That's really funny. When I hear a fart noise I do a backwards sniff, blowing air out of my nose, in an attempt to not allow the fart particles to enter my nostrils.

Mine too!

yep. i notice it when someone feels hard done by by another person.

Ew.

Never really noticed that before, but now that you mention it, it is really weird that people take a sniff of other people's farts!