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This 11-year-old girl identifies colours by just smelling while blindfolded
The girls aim is to eventually become helpful to those who are visually impaired, hence the decision to sharpen her senses.
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According to odditycentral.com, Deepti Regmi believes that her ability is a gift from God. She has been training to sharpen her sense of smell with the hope that she will eventually be able to use her ability to help the visually impaired.
A footage originally posted to Daily Mail showed her identifying colors while blindfolded by sniffing various objects.
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Reports suggest that she is also able to identify colours printed in a newspaper and read the print by feeling it. The footage was shot by Puskar Nepal, whose occupation and relationship to the Regmi family is unknown.
Puskar said “I checked the blindfold to ensure that she couldn’t see through it. I was really amazed that she could smell the colors and feel the fonts with her finger with so much ease.
“She’s excellent in her studies too. Both of her parents are very happy with the rare talent their daughter has.”
Though no medical doctor has diagnosed her of any disorder, her ability appears to be related to the sensory phenomena known as synesthesia, which causes a person’s senses to become confused, causing sensation to one sensory input (such as the eyes) to stimulate sensation in another (the nose).
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