'Man flu': my random theory...

[LittleClapham]

I have developed a cold. Now most people, especially women, would just get up and get on with life. Whenever I get a cold, I tuck into bed, moan and cry as if I am dying. Sound familiar? This is common in men but for some reason me as well!

I have a random theory that probably makes little to no sense (my brain is full of cold too!). Back in the REALLY old Neanderthal days, men were the hunter-gatherers. They needed their senses to spot prey and catch them. It would therefore make sense that men have got heightened senses on average compared to women. A cold affects the senses; gives you blocked ears, blurry eyes, you lose your sense of taste and smell and your whole body aches. I think men genuinely do feel these symptoms more strongly than the majority of women.

So how does this involve me? Well I have autism so my senses are all hyperactive! I feel pain a lot more strongly than most people (or so it seems) and I become quite distressed if any of my senses get distorted by a cold. This means that, like many men, I too have 'man flu'.

Seriously don't ask where I got all this theory from I think I hallucinated it last night when I had a fever...

[Bootgates]

aw! you poor fing. I'm going to make you a nice hot lemon & hunny drink, albeit a hyper one. That's hunny in Winnie-Pooh bear style which is of course nicer than honey. Tuck you up and tuck your little pandy paws in so as your all nice and cosy & wish you better soon...

[catherinem]

Man-flu and woman flu are two completely different ailments, the symptoms are completely different in severity, man-flu has less severe symptoms , yet however renders the sufferer unable to function, yet woman-flu the syptoms are more severe yet the suffer can acryy on with life as normal. With regards to the hunter-gatherer theory I'm not to sure, women tended to pick fruit and berries and rely on their sense of taste and smell. My dad (bless him, poor daddy) doesn't have a sense of smell, I'm not sure how this happened but he doesn't have a sense of smell, this effects his sense of taste too, however he has recently become more adventourous with his food (he used to be the man who would order scampi and chips in an Indian resturaunt) and now he eats alsorts. However when he gets a cold being a man he gets man-flu. The disadvanage of this is that he has done some smelly jobs in the past, when my parents met he kept pigs (he could smell then) and now he's a fitter (maintains a fleet for a bulding company) and smells of desiel and oil and he doesn't realise how bad it smells.

Maybe men are imune to vehicle related smells, Pete was fixing his bike the other day and dropped it thus spilling some of the contents of the petrol tank on himself. He claimed he couldn't smell it.