Sensitivity to smells

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I know it all. I like summer because of less amounts of clothes, but I hate it because of warmth and shining sun. I live close to beach, but I go only on the cloudy days. And the Lightfilters stink so and are horribly sticky! They never want absorb into skin. Bleeee!

NTs don't understand I like summer, but not warmth and shining sun.

I have a sensitivity to smells, sounds and touching sensations...

My sense of smell is very keen, and I can not stand for myself or anyone else to smell bad. Some smells make me gag very badly...

How does touch sensivity feel? Does it hurt you?

I don't like too much touch, especially of unknown people. I don't understand hugs or kisses of NTs when they say Hello!. I feel discomfort, but it doesn't hurt me. And people are dirty and they stink.
But I like tender touch from more trusted people. I feel quite safe and good. But all strangers better get away with your hugs! Even free.

I can literally smell perfectly fine.... but I wouldn't say i'm sensitive to them apart from certain perfumes (which I don't even know the brand names for it) and some of those tend to give me a horrible headache.

Also body odour, i'm also really sensitive to it and I find it very uncomfortable to be in a area that smells like BO.... I would end up gradually seperating myself or try to hack the smell.

But other than that, I don't seem to have a major issue with it.

My dad's just like that. (@OP)

I have quite a few problem smells. Murphy's Oil Soap, furniture polish, polyurethane, and worst of all is a complex of perfumery chemicals which is causing me new levels of stress and alarm because they are exploding in popularity.
I call it the Febreze complex, but Febreze is only the most recent of this new and evil army of stenches. It began with gag-worthy aerosols and plug-in evaporators of sickening perfume odors - potpourri and whatnot. Then I began to notice in public bathrooms a little wall-mounted device that periodically spits this crap into the air, and on one occasion right on my arm. I freaked out and smashed the dispenser. I would rather smell s**t, straight up. Then I had a 'febreze meltdown' at my house one night. I got home late and discovered that a well-meaning but clueless relative had cleaned the house with two or three of these horrific products. I could not breathe, I could not even stand to be in the house, so I threw open all the windows and went for a drive, staying up all night at diners and donut shops till it was safe to come home. The smell was almost completely gone by then so I shut the windows and went to bed.
When I woke up THE SMELL WAS BACK. It was like a horror movie. It was about 75% as strong as it had been the day before. I freaked out, threw open all the windows again, and searched the house for the offending products. I found the prime offender, a mop with a refillable, battery-powered squirter built in, and was so enraged at the assault on my senses that I took it outside and smashed it to smithereens on the sidewalk. Bad move - I got the LIQUID FORM ALL OVER MY HANDS and fled back inside, where I showered until the hot water ran out (about 45 minutes).
After purging the house of the offending chemicals, and making some heated phone calls to people who have since promised to keep that s**t out of my house, I did some research. I was horrified to learn that the chemical companies that make this s**t are using a new technology, a sort of nanoscale time-release formula. It involves coating microscopic germination particles with the perfume which then releases slowly, rather than shooting its wad in one application. The coated particles continue to off-gas for many hours, up to two or more days. That's how the smell came back after I shut the windows - these germinator particles were still sticking to all manner of surfaces in the house, continuing to release the noxious gas, so it built back up with the windows closed.
I am considering litigation, as well as firebombing the headquarters of companies that make and distribute this poison. I cannot comprehend why any human would find these vile chemical odors preferable to whatever they were designed to outstink.

Also just remembered but I hate having to use public toilets because of the smell. I remember a couple of months ago I was busting so went into a public toilet. Someone had been in there just before me and I must have gagged soo many times and was very close to being sick.. Horrible experience!

The person that left must have felt soo embarassed. I was actually shaking after I left.

I dread the day I have to change a babies nappy!! ! Don't know how I'll cope.

I don't like strong smells at all, but I prefer Chlorine or Sulphur etc. than sweat, foul breath, (per)fumes and sandwiches. Am I odd or you have the same?

Somebody mention something about touch sensitivity here. I work with disabled kids and I find that with alot of individuals on the autistic, touch can mean either one thing or another. Some really like physical contact, especially deep pressure. The like being squeezed to the point of me worrying about them hurting themselves. Others on the other hand, can't stand touch and will yelp like they've been injured or something if you so much as brush up against them. It's very fascinating and it proves the point that every person on the spectrum is a unique individual and no two are the same.

I myself love physical contact and I can't get enough. I love big squeezy hugs and having somebody lie ontop of me. My boyfriend and found out that if he squeezes the sides of my head, it has an almost intoxicating calming effect.

lol I luv the smell of chlorine too XD

I've always been sensitive to smell as well, the most being to the smell of alcohol (the kind you drink). I've had times when people tell me you can't taste or smell the alcohol in a drink (that they wanted me to try) but they lie, I can sense the smallest amount in a liquid. I also get the worst headache in the back of my head when I smell it on someone or if there is an open bottle/glass close to me so I try and avoid it the best I can.

I'm extremely hypersensitive to smells. However, this also means that I love smelling things that to me, have a good scent. I love scented candles, lotions, etc.

The smell of cigarette smoke really gets to me.

Am I more sensitive to smells? Oh, yeah. One time, during a lab class, we were on a farm, and it stunk, yet I could smell this mango smell, so I asked "What smells like mangoes?" The teacher said it was probably her body wash. A somewhat embarrassing moment for both of us, but I couldn't stand another second why a farm would have a mango smell.
I also can tell if someone was in a room if they left some of their smell. If they had been in a room for about fifteen minutes, and then left, I would be able to tell if I came in a short while later. This only works with people I know, of course, you have to recognize the smell first.
I also hate the smell of cantaloupes and honey dews; idk why, I just do.

This is a great point. The smells I like, are awesome!
For all my febrezephobia, the oldschool cleaning products like bleach and ammonia don't bother me. Strong ammonia is mildly unpleasant but I think only to the extent that it is for anybody.
For unusual smells to like, I have:
Creosote and rust (walking the train tracks thru industrial parts of town)
Chlorine, bleach, strong acids
Mild sulfurous odors
Wood smoke

Smells that are overwhelming: incense, perfume, scented candles, cat excrement, sprays (deodorant/hairspray), petrol, manildra (starch/ perfume mix - there's a plant in my town that makes the area around it smell like vegemite).

Smells I can't stand but am not overwhelmed by: fish, certain plants in my neigbourhood, cigarettes, bourbon

I'm kind of glad I can smell my own BO before everyone else.

There are a lot of smells I can´t stand:

Cigarettes. Bad breath. Body odours. Old food smells in rooms.
Clothes looking clean but smelling strange and old.
Synthetic perfumes, synthetic aromes.
The smell you have on your hands after you have used the computer and mouse of somebody else, uaaaaah! (At work I desinfect the stuff before I start.) Too much perfume. Most cleaning substances.
If my hands smell strange from touching things in undergrounds and busses.

I love aetheric lavender oil (It always calms me down. A small bottle is always in my bag while I am travelling, hotel beds can smell strange, too. Uaaaah.)
Fresh sheets, the metallic smell of air in clothes and hair after a walk in cool air, my body odour mixed with earth (after gardening, for example), the body smell of my lovers, earth, creosot, campher, Douglas fir, old roses, round-leaved wintergreen, lime oil, the smell of high quality food, these are smells I love.

It seems like the organic and metallic things and clean fabrics are favourites, on the wrong side are mostly synthetics and smells of others I don not know and do not like, mixed with dirt.