Christian
I think I speak for most people when I say that I’m a good representative of the general population.
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Christian@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is something you can see, hear, smell, etc., that others can't?English
2·14 days agoBefore I lost my sense of smell I was absurdly sensitive to ranch. If my ex opened a ranch dip in the apartment I would be dry-heaving very quickly. When I was a kid I would sometimes move seats eating lunch at school because other kids had ranch doritos. Not having to deal with that anymore was a rare positive to come out of my awful experience with covid.
I can enjoy coldcuts and cheeses, but they’ll make me sick if they’re not extremely fresh. In some cases they already smell and taste like they’ve gone rancid fresh off the slicer.
Pancreatitic sepsis fucked my tastebuds, my hospital stay was extended a full week because I couldn’t keep down foods other than sweets. They actually restarted me on the feeding tube because of that. When I went off the NPO and got to eat again for the first time I asked for a spicy sandwich from Chick-Fil-A, I’m pretty sure it was just an ordinary spicy sandwich but in that moment it tasted like the spiciest thing I had ever eaten in my entire life. I don’t like the taste of water anymore, which is miserable.
Christian@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is something you can see, hear, smell, etc., that others can't?English
2·14 days agoEver since I had pancreatitic sepsis I hate the taste of water, it’s so frustrating. I mostly drink a few specific zero-sugar sodas now, I wish the prebiotic sodas weren’t so expensive because they would be the best solution.
Christian@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why do some people try to humanize the wealthy and people in positions of power?English
5·20 days agoI think it’s increasingly easier to feel empathy for a killer the more steps there are between them and the trigger. I personally find it much more jarring when someone can just fully turn off empathy when given context. A lot of the time what you’re talking about goes hand-in-hand with dehumanizing the impoverished, that’s the one I can’t fathom.

If you put a bandage over the big hole in your chest you can get a good drumming sound out of it.