A collaborative project of NYU Steinhardt, Hunter College's School of Education, and the New York City Department of Education. Recorded January 12, 2010. For information, please contact dorothy.siegel@nyu.edu
Smells... what pregnant women experience ... is what folks on spectrum experience all the time... my son could smell chestnuts roasting and pretzels being cooked and warmed OUTSIDE on the street in NYC from INSIDE the bus station literally yards and yards away. That's how intense it is. He had meltdown at age 5 or 6 until we carried him past it.
For the smell thing, mine is mustard. I think everything about mustard is offensive. The color, the smell, the taste. Everything. I worked at McDonald's as a teen and one night it splashed on my face. I couldn't help but to cry and had to go wash my face with soap and water. I can be around it now, but I still very much dislike it.
