Comment on In world's 1st known case, man tears windpipe from holding sneeze

wandermind@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t help but hold them in. I used to be able to produce a full, loud, relieving sneeze as a young kid, but my dad thought it was performative or somehow fake. I realized recently that’s probably why I stifle every single one now and have for >30 years. This post actually scares me.

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  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hah, I have the same type of sneeze. Someone once told me they don’t believe I can have such an “archetypical” sneeze. It still blows my mind that some children were traumatized so much for this, they learned to instinctively suppress their sneezes.

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  • ElBarto@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sneeze loud and proud my friend, let the whole world know you have an irritated sinus!

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    • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You don’t understand. I’m the same way and it’s completely reflexive. I can’t choose to, I automatically suppress it.

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      • ElBarto@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well hopefully one day your subconscious lets you sneeze with deafening power, it’s amazing.

        I will sneeze extra loud in honour of the silent sneezers!

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This made me think of mirror therapy… wonder if you could recondition by watching a video of somebody sneezing simultaneously. Sounds like a dumb suggestion, writing it out, but if it doesn’t you could bookmark a video and throw it on your phone home screen.

    Hopefully you’re a “pro” now and that’s enough to avoid eardrum ruptures, vertigo, ruptured eye blood vessels! 😬

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