Pepsi

I got a question about sense of smell. It's it true that someone with hearing lost has a stronger sense of smell than someone who don't have a hearing lost?

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jillio

I would say that it probably isn't technically any stronger, but the deaf person might be more aware of the sense of smell because they use it to compensate in some ways for the lack of auditory stimulation. Just a case of using it more than perhaps a hearing person would.

VamPyroX

I would say that it depends on the sensory loss and that person's preference for wanting to be more aware of his/her surroundings.

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Pepsi

You might be right jillio.I can smell gas from my stove but no one in my house can smell it,so I was told because of my hearing lost I am able to have a stronger sense of smell.

Bottesini

I think it is true. I always smell things a lot more than other members of my family who are hearing. I keep insisting and when they think they can eventually smell it too.

Brian

I believe it is true too. I could always smell something that others around me couldn't. My Deaf friend told me of an incident recently at the chicken plant, she had smelled gas in the plant, she asked her co-worker/helper about it. The co-worker/helper realised about it and alerted the managers. They found a leak on the gas line.

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Phillips

Kinda True!! My hearing Sibling and I were at somewhere… I always first said what smell is?

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Pepsi

This is why wanted to ask ADers,To try to find out if its true and it seems like it might be true and that I am not nuts.

jillio

It has been confirmed! You are not nuts!

moonflower

pepsi lover you not nuts

my mom who is hearing can smell gas i can't smell it once my mom smell gas at blood lab when i went in for blood test one nurse there did smell it but not other nurses there.
i did not smell it weird heh

PowerON

YES

normal for hearing have 5 senses: audio, visual, touch, taste and smell
Each are 20% function in brain. Once one is miss such as audio that never use much. It cause other 4 function increase 5% more which mean, all are 25% each.

More we see, touch, taste and smell. Sometime, I felt we, deaf, see more.

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Chase

I know Jillio and Vampy are right that the heightened sense of smell for lots of deafies is subjective. In my case, as I became progressively deafer, the accuracy of my sense of smell increased.

My boss is so impressed with my sensitive nose that he has me walk through our bee yard and hive sites just to sniff out the early stages of "foul brood," a condition where we have to burn the colony, hive boxes and all.

jillio

The wonders of human adaptation! Ain't it grand?

deafskeptic

I have a poor sense of smell so I'm afraid my deafness hasn't sharpened my sense of smell.

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AlleyCat

I guess I never really noticed about my sense of smell being heightened for me, although I have always been aware that certain senses over-compensate for a missing or limited sense. In my case, it's the sense of feel. I can be laying in bed and not facing the door yet know that someone is walking in the room just by feeling that slight vibration. Same as my cat purring on the other end of the couch, I can feel that reverbrating throughout the couch. And so on. I'm sure most of you can relate.

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Dixie

Should that happen I'll just sniff the air and then yell out - SHE'S GONNA BLOW!!!

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Pepsi

Thank you jillio and moonflower for confirming that I am not nuts

Pepsi

That makes a lot of sense, thank PowerOn.

Miss-Delectable

I used to have a strong sense of smell, but I lost the strength of smell when I underwent anaesthetic for an operation. Realised I lost some of it afterward.

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Matilda

I can smell rain coming before it actually rains. Also smoke/bush fires.

jillio

My grandfather used to say he could smell rain in the air before it started. We used to call him "Weather Nose" when we were kids. LOL.

Sorry for the off topic...I couldn't resist!

lilylover72

I can smell most the time. My husband and son said they cannot smell but I can. odd!

GarnetTigerMom

Speaking of the sense of smells, which true. But I do smell many things thousand miles away like example, gas smell, rain coming, smell of wet damp grasses, foods outside when someone cooking like five miles away, can t stand the smell of hospitals, smell fire any kind of smell. When I was pregnant, the smell get stronger.

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Flight

I can only speak for myself but yes. When I lost my hearing, my sense of smell got more acute. My eyes didn't get more acute but I noticed/could see more (like looking at the world I can take in more than I could when I could hear), which I assume is because I didn't have hearing to distract me. My sense of touch was far more acute! I can feel the tempeture rise and fall outside, I used to live in a rather big house and slept on the second floor and would get woken up when someone knocked at the door.

Flight

I can smell the rain, of course I could smell rain before it rained when I could hear too.

jillio

Yeah, that little knack doesn't have anything to do with hearing status. My grandfather was a hearie, LOL.

freckles

could be true for some.

one class I was in, one of two terps was eating a yogurt on a break. I didn't see it at first as was sitting way in back of classroom and focused on some papers, just right after I looked up to confirm what I was smelling she had already put it away so I asked, were you just eating a yogurt? she caught off guard astonishingly said omg, how did you know..?

I didn't know what to say lol, just said I thought I smelled it. then she joked that I followed her from her home so I saw it before and asked me what kind it was... strawberry I giggled! lmao.. told me I have a smell sense of a shark! (sharks can smell prior to three miles underwater). I have had plenty of people rosing their eyebrow at my strong sense of smell - many could not smell what I smelled. even in distances too.

so I agree especially with jillio's first post and others - I believe that goes the same for our eyes. we've lived our lives with our eyes, smell and sensation. practices to perfection! go us!

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thanks authentic!

Pepsi

I done this many times. when I would buy meat I always smell it. And sometimes I think the meat don't smell right and my family can't find anything wrong with it,so they think that I am over doing it.