Daily Shaarli
August 13, 2026
Do I think labels are useful for me right now? No. Do I feel called the hell out anyway? Absolutely.
Food for thought, and if nothing else corroborates with the "I haven't (yet) experienced romantic attraction" theory.
For two years, he says he completely lost his sense of smell.
Dr Gillogley says it is common for people with DID to have an overwhelming fear of going outside.
“They’re frightened that they’ll switch to a more vulnerable self who might be younger and might not be oriented to time and place, and often it’s not something that can be controlled,” he says.
“It can be tricky to go around in the community and function in everyday life when whoever heads out the door may not be the person exploring in the community.”
The relevance of this model lies in a particularly suggestive idea: romance may not be an autonomous form of intimacy, but rather a cultural narrative built from several combined intimacies.
From this perspective, what we call “romance” ceases to be a fixed essence and becomes instead a particular relational configuration among many others.
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In [queerplatonic] relationships, what matters is not necessarily romance or sexuality, but the structural quality of the bond itself: mutual care, deep intimacy, emotional continuity, shared meaning-making, and sustained presence in one another’s lives.
Rather than rejecting romance outright, queerplatonic relationships seem to question the assumption that every profound bond must necessarily be organized around the classical romantic model.
Recommendation from a friend
Some of the causes of olfaction problems are allergies, nasal polyps, viral infections and head trauma. [...] Lifelong hyposmia could be caused by or comorbid with Kallmann syndrome or autism.
See also: Dysosmia and Anosmia, which list an assortment of causes including fibromyalgia, Bell's palsy, depression, etc. Bodies are a mess, it seems.