Is it normal to be generally impossible to disgust?

Supposedly disgust is one of the "core" emotions. You know, a very animal, instinctual feeling. But somehow or another, I developed in such a way that disgust gradually started disappearing from my emotional palette. When people say "eww" I just don't get it anymore. I don't find ugly people disgusting, I don't find unclean people disgusting, I don't find foreign food, garbage, rot odour, or bodily functions/fluids disgusting. I've been thrown up on by a dog and thought nothing of it. The only thing that gets to me is blood and gore, but my reaction is more of fear than disgust. I feel disturbed and frightened, rather than grossed out. And even this is limited, as I have seen pretty much the worst real life gore possible, and I'm only disturbed for a few moments. In a way I feel blessed, because I can approach and study things other people run away from, and that I think it goes hand-in-hand with being open-minded about not just sensual stimuli, but even concepts that might disgust someone more closed-minded. In fact, I see disgust as more of a weakness than a defense. So, is it normal to very rarely be disgusted?

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44% Normal
Based on 79 votes (35 yes)
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  • GoraIntoDesiGals

    How about drinking sewage water with a decaying body in it?

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    • Koda

      Well, I wouldn't do that! ^.^ I don't want to get sick. The smell alone would probably induce my gag reflex. But the idea of it doesn't disgust me.

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      • GoraIntoDesiGals

        Gag reflex = severe disgust

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        • Koda

          I thought someone would call me on that. But what I mean by disgust is the disgust of an idea or a visual stimulus. Like conscious disgust. I rarely gag. I can stick a toothbrush down my throat and not gag, but when I do gag it's involuntary, no matter what I "think" about the smell or taste, a censor in my brain tells my throat to gag. And still it would take something like a dead body rotting for days in sewage to make me gag at all.

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  • whatisthenatureofreality

    Let me direct you here:
    https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Offended

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    • Koda

      The end of that page didn't load :( I lol'd @ the old man orgy XD The shredded hand was particularly awful. Luckily none of the images on that page activated one of my phobias. The only sure way to make my skin crawl, of course I won't be sharing that on this site lol I really feel disturbed by gore as I said above, so now you've kinda made me scared!

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    • MissyLeyneous

      Challenge accepted!

      OMG NOT BARNEY... ANYTHING BUT BARNEY!!!

      YOU ASSHOLE!!! TT___TT

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  • xzorimoon

    I know many people who are hardly disgusted by things and I think it's actually a very good quality. You should be proud! :)

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    • Koda

      I am in a way. It's just annoying when people are like "eww, how can you not be grossed out by that?" all the time.

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  • ginatripodi

    Have you ever seen those pictures of tumors with teeth and hair growing in them?

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  • dappled

    I'm more disgusted by moral (or rather, immoral) things as opposed to the usual visceral reaction. People kicking pregnant ladies downstairs is more abhorrent to me than a sackful of body parts.

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    • VioletTrees

      I'm the same way, although I wish you'd picked a slightly different example.

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    • Koda

      I don't like either of those thoughts.

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  • ZitsOnMyButt

    Not normal, but not bad either. As long as you're not completely desensitized to the disgusting and disturbing, you're alright. It takes quite a bit to turn my stomach as well.

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    • Koda

      I feel like disgusting and disturbing are very different. One is an idea that causes you to gag, not a stimulus like a bad smell, I consider that different. And disturbing to me is more upsetting or offending, like death, injury, cruelty etc. I'm definitely easy to shake, but not to gross out.

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  • OswaldCobblepot

    Someone needs to see Cannibal Holocaust…

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    • Koda

      If it's gory I don't want to. I'm disturbed by death and injury.

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      • OswaldCobblepot

        It's practically a children's movie!

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        • Koda

          lol OK.

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  • thehappyamoeba

    its not that common, but it sure is useful :)

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