This is legitimately fascinating to me as I have anosmia (not covid-related), so my relationship with flavors, if I manage to have one at all, is like big primary color splotches instead of intricate details that can change over time

i think genuinely all of my ability to perceive fine detail went into wringing as much out of the senses of smell and touch as the human body in its artless and undignified limited fashion will permit me

my brain was like "well the eyes suck and the ears may as well not be there. what do we have on the ship that's GOOD" and in another life i'm designing perfumes about it or something, a thing i actually really wanted to do as a kid, & i made perfumes for family members for a while, I was good at it

And apparently British spelling.

somehow I picked up British spellings for words around the same time I drowned my natural accent in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (I think it's actually that I grew up on the Internet with a lot of international and UK friends and was a rebellious teenager during the Bush administration)

It's fine, it's not like it makes you a bad person or unable to use spices but I repeat myself. I only ever use the re in theatre but I do think licence is more correct. I can't remember which gray/grey is which. And I lived in the UK for 4 years.

both grey and gray are correct but in my head i have to use the RIGHT one for the right word like skies are gray but cats are grey

What about tea or pubic hair?

Earl Grey tea, that's a *name*, you have to get that right human hair regardless of its place on the body is grey, i think because humans are more like cats than like the sky, but humans are also like the sky in important ways so they can have gray hair, it's just spookier