One would think that growing up with a sense is integral to its processing (and filtering) and the sudden introduction of a sense later in life would come with all sorts of side effects.
I find I filter more now but I still find a lot of stronger smells to be deeply unpleasant and I don't recall being sensitive like this as a child.
I learned to identify some smells and relate the experience to others but my notes tended to be very basic, especially compared to a friend who was working on his level two sommelier test (who was ruthlessly empirical in his epicureanism so I believe wasn't bullshiting the wine snobbery).
Oddly enough, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children covers this exact feeling almost in the same way as you describe. If you haven’t read it, I definitely recommend it - it’s a long read but also very enojoyable.
Of course, I still would. It just makes me a bit nervous.
Another example which might seem the opposite for most. I don't personally understand the appeal of stinky tofu (yet). (all over China but most of my experience with it were Taiwan). To me it tastes like a savory tofu dish where someone set a bowl of steaming hot feces on plate next to you while I you eat. In other words, to me, nothing is added by the smell. Take it away and it would be a standard savory tofu dish. But, all of my Taiwanese friends crave this stuff and I think the smell is part of it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/books/review/comnig-to-ou...
I wouldn't read anything into it.
Little kids hearing their mother's voice for the first time. Friends seeing color for the first time after being given corrective glasses as a gift.
Highly recommended watching.
Normal glasses that correct refractive vision issues are obviously real, and great, I'm certainly a big fan of mine. And while I've never seen it in person, videos of babies seeing through refractive correction glasses are adorable every time.
Those videos you mention are designed to invoke “happy-feelies” to maximise engagement and monetisation, nothing more.
The doctors warned us not to expect any reaction in our daughter like in those videos.
Even so, I wasn’t prepared for just how difficult my daughter’s post-implantation journey was. It took many months before the implants provided even remotely similar benefit as the tiny amount of benefit her older hearing aids could give.
She had to learn to hear all over again from scratch.
This affected her self-confidence, her friendships, her schooling, and was a very difficult time for her.
Those turn-on videos you mention are overly saccharine to make you feel good while having nothing to do with the reality of the situation for almost all cases.
Every day I discover a new way that humanity has disappointed me.