i am 16 years old and i am congenitally anosmic.  i have found only a few communities online for anosmics and no one who has even heard of it in real life.  i'm glad to meet all of you!

My brother, 20, has anosmia and has since I can remember. He remembers not smelling around age 4 but without any memories before that, we are lead to believe it is congenital. He has had his adenoids removed but this was after we first knew about his problem. He spent a week at the Taste and Smell Clinic in Washington DC and all they could tell him ( Read more... )

Hello, I just joined. I have hyposmia, or at least that's my self-diagnosis. I don't ever recall being to smell fully...and I only have one distinct scent memory which was in 2003, I was driving through dry foresty areas and all I could smell was pine (or that's what I think it was) - for an hour I had a blissful smile on my face ( Read more... )

I wrote a myspace blog a few months ago about how I always have to drink milk to see if it's gone bad or not, which is why I diligently check exp dates before imbibing anything anymore. I just can't smell whether or not something has gone bad. This just absolutely fascinates people ( Read more... )

Last week I drove to my friend's house, about twelve miles away. I was going to pick her up so we could go to a movie. She lives on a busy street in the city, and there's usually no place to park ( Read more... )

I've never smelled anything in my life and for the most part it has been a nonissue for me. I've always had people around to help me out in situations where smell was helpful/needed and have had no problems to speak of. Recently I bought my daughter a kitten. It's my first pet really (unless you count the hamster) and I've found myself in a ( Read more... )

Lack of entries it seems here. But I feel I must join anyways ( Read more... )

Hi! I see that this place isn't very active but I wanted to join anyway because I have a friend who lost his sense of smell about five years ago due his olfactory nerve being severed. He suffered a major head trauma and part of his skull on his left side had to be removed to allow room for his brain to swell and so the doctors could remove some ( Read more... )

I like to think that my tastebuds are more sensitive than those of the non-aroma-impaired (like the way blind people are supposed to have a more acute sense of hearing or touch). I've heard smelling people (a phrase I just coined - like it?) talk about vegetables as if they are tasteless, or bland. Me, I find many vegetables very flavorful, even ( Read more... )

what's the first thing people ask you when you say you can't smell?