I like to say: “I can’t taste good food from bad food”. All coffee tastes like coffee, all wine tastes like wine, etc. Always been that way. Makes it stressful to cook for other people, but very easy to cook for myself. :-) I think my smell and taste receptors are all normal, I’m just not wired to pay very close attention to them. :-P
Like niplav, I can’t form a mental image of most (or all?) people’s faces, not even (or maybe “especially not”) people I see every day. Like, if you ask me the eye color of my own wife, when I’m not looking at her … OK well, I do know the answer, but only as an abstract, declarative fact. I can’t just visualize her face and figure it out. I’m much better at visualizing cartoon characters’ faces, teddy bears, other objects, etc. :-P
I like to say: “I can’t taste good food from bad food”. All coffee tastes like coffee, all wine tastes like wine, etc. Always been that way. Makes it stressful to cook for other people, but very easy to cook for myself. :-) I think my smell and taste receptors are all normal, I’m just not wired to pay very close attention to them. :-P
Like niplav, I can’t form a mental image of most (or all?) people’s faces, not even (or maybe “especially not”) people I see every day. Like, if you ask me the eye color of my own wife, when I’m not looking at her … OK well, I do know the answer, but only as an abstract, declarative fact. I can’t just visualize her face and figure it out. I’m much better at visualizing cartoon characters’ faces, teddy bears, other objects, etc. :-P