• MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    I remember people giving Biden shit for smelling his granddaughter’s head, right in that spot in the middle of the scalp that always smells like a newborn baby. People make me so sad for the little wholesome things its obvious they missed out on, so they label it “predatory”.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah, outrage distribution networks are awful. I still smell my 15-month-old’s scalp after a bath. I’m going to miss it when the “baby smell” completely disappears.

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    I fucking love not smelling like anything. Might be my autism and adhd. I’m elated when I find deodorant, body soap and hair soap that barely has a smell, or at least a smell that vanishes quickly.

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        I heard, quite a while back, that while deodorants are basically just smelly persistent goo that helps trap and mask your most stinky zones, antiperspirants actually act by having an element that binds to your sweat glands, and this can actually cause them to block up and cause dermatological problems.

        Is this still, or was it ever accurate?

        I dunno, maybe its more or less like many kinds of make up, where that only becomes a problem if you don’t wash it off after use?

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          Antiperspirants use aluminum compounds that clog glands and block sweat from exiting pores. Reactions to this process vary a lot.

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      2 months ago

      not wanting to smell like something is no more related to adhd than liking pizza

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          No, it isn’t. Check the DSM. Stop making things up about medical diagnoses.

          If everyone on earth with ADHD liked pizza, liking pizza still wouldn’t be a symptom - no matter how much you say it is on your online forums.

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              I understand this is something being researched. but it’s not something conclusive. there are a few studies suggesting links but more work needs to be done. there’s studies in there that are out of date and others that rely on self-reported symptoms. then there’s also comorbid ASD which muddies the water. one great study you link controlled for ASD and found interesting things to follow up on, but you cannot base conclusions on one paper alone.

              as far as the science is currently concerned, sensory sensitivity is not diagnostic of ADHD at this time. and with OP saying they have ASD, why even lump ADHD in this?

              I’m getting so tired of armchair psychologists on social media, jeez…

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    2 months ago

    At the hospital, one of the nurses joked that whenever a fellow medical professional walked past a newborn they’d always ask for a hit of that new baby smell. Coke for the neonatal wing of the hospital.

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    Wasn’t there an old thing for women’s perfume that they should “smell like the underside of my mistress”