Anosmia Posts

Posts about anosmia, the lack of the sense of smell temporarily or permanently

[anosmia-posts]

Welcome, all!

This blog was created in order to spread awareness, positivity, and solidarity about anosmia, the condition where someone lacks a sense of smell.

Anosmia-posts also blogs about other disorders of the olfactory system including but not limited to: hyposmia, parosmia, and phantosmia.

There is only one admin at the moment, I am a congenital anosmic meaning I was born with anosmia. I use it/its and he/him pronouns.

Feel free to send in asks about personal experiences, culture, questions, suggestions, etc.

Send in any characters you know with canonical smell disorders (whether it be temporary or otherwise), check the #canon smell disorders tag for characters already posted!

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[seerya]

Not the anosmic representation I expected but I will take and celebrate it nonetheless

[anosmia-posts]

As an anosmic person (is that the term?) I hate when people say "your so lucky!" Like, no? Im not? There are actually quite alot of jobs i can never do because I can't smell.

They also ask me if I can taste. Like, yes. I can taste. Its not surprising. We would've noticed much sooner if I couldn't taste food.

Also, people not believing in was born like this.

Its so annoying. Anyway, have a good day everyone! Drink water!

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[lance-alt]

shoutout to Belfort! it means a lot to me he can't smell a thing and that is a consistent trait that is kept in most episodes. there is even one focused on his lack of smell, AND he doesn't magically obtain this skill by the end of it

the episode mentioned is called Elite Dog, if you're interested

[anosmia-polls]

do you relate to nonhuman characters?

yes

no

complicated

Voting ended onFeb 22

[fearwasalwaysshitting]

Not the first time this week I saw one of these "guess the smell" thingies at an exhibit. The other one was certain scents that insects emit, I think the only difference I sensed was this banana one felt a bit sweeter? My designated noses looked at me weird when I said this

[fearwasalwaysshitting]

If I had a nickel

[disability-shout-outs]

Shout out to folks with Acquired Anosmia!

[turtleduck-in-mordor]

to the great horror of many, i, an anosmic, have chosen to imagine smells solely and exclusively in terms of extremely bougie perfume ads. i'm told the smell of lavender makes you all rather...unhinged.

[this-is-ableism]

When someone tells me that they also wish they weren't able to smell and that being able to smell things actually sucks because of all the bad smells? Asking if I can still taste things? Being suprised that i 100% still can

this is ableism.

[this-is-ableism]

Dunno if this counts but my family laughing at me because I describe some scents as concepts due to my partial anosmia (cigarette smoke smells like how a nutty buddy feels for example) despite using similar descriptions for other senses

this is ableism.

[anosmia-polls]

favourite flavour

sweet

sour

salty

spicy

savory

Voting ended onDec 18, 2025

[anosmia-posts]

When I was little, my mom asked me what my favorite of the incense she got was, but at the time, I couldn't smell at all (I have hyposmia but it fluctuates), so I picked the one with the coolest name. So I just said my favorite was dragon's blood xD

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[maltoux]

having a really fucked up sense of smell is equivalently miserable to my specific way of being asexual. sometimes shit is repulsive and hurts and sometimes it’s like. just the bit you remember the idea of. but both of those are neutral, and rare. most of the time it’s just trying to understand this feeling as a physical sensation as well as an ephemeral one. a twinge does not stick well when most of the time, the first thing you notice yourself feeling or smelling is literally just air temperature.

[anosmia-posts]

hi, sorry if you dint answer these kinds of asks, feel free to ignore. but would this count as some form of anosmia/smell disorder? (or multiple at once?)

i cant smell a lot of smells, like gas or rotting animals/meat or some flowers. but then some of the smells i can smell are either really faint, some what i assume is a normal level, and some really hypersensitive- like to the point i cant tell if theres an actual fire or if someone just turned the oven or stove on (and with no burning or cooking food)

Disclaimer that I should have put in some of my other queries: I am not a doctor or diagnostician. I am making educated guesses based off my own experiences and research.

Smell perception is highly variable among individuals, with and without smell disorders. What is faint or absent to one person may be intense to another. This is mostly a genetics thing but the way smell is perceived can also be altered by certain injuries and illnesses.

This might just be a case of genetics causing specific anosmia, hyposmia, and hypersmia as part as normal variation found in most smelling people. Or it could be partial anosmia depending on how many odours you are unable to detect. I don't have enough information to completely confirm this, plus what I stated before.

[anosmia-posts]

Found you through mutual. Now Rotating concepts for OC with anosmia.

Yes! Please share if you're willing. I love to see anosmic + smell disordered characters

[anosmia-posts]

I think having trauma bc people with more sense of smell get mad at you for smelling bad night just be the anosmia/hyposmia experience

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[homunculus-argument]

Autism diagnosis questionnaires are kind of like if the only way to diagnose blindness was by having someone list all the things they don't see. Like imagine being brought into a room where you can't see shit and being told "okay list all the things in this room that you can't see or perceive in any way. No you can't feel around that'd be cheating."

"Uhhh furniture?"

"No there's no furniture in this room. If you were truly blind you would have known that."

[yesmynameisbird]

As a blind person, you'd be amazed how many people act eerily similar to this post. Some people really struggle to understand that blindness is a spectrum and does not necessarily mean no sight at all.

[homunculus-argument]

Every time I make or see some sort of a "hey wouldn't it be fucked up and stupid if some physical disability was treated the same way a neurological/psychological health issue is", there's always someone who actually is physically disabled, who reminds me that actually, people absolutely do that to physically disabled people and it's just as fucked up and stupid as I'd have assumed it is. Like having a disability is probably already hard enough without also having to deal with idiots all day.

[anosmia-posts]

Adding on that anosmia (and probably other smell disorders) is diagnosed and treated in a similar fashion.