Sneeze loud and proud my friend, let the whole world know you have an irritated sinus!
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Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 11 months agoI 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.
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
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.
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!
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! 😬
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.