They tried to steer me to intelligence, because I did well on some tests
that involved ascertaining one's aptitude for linguistics. Apparently I
have some. However, as I have recounted here before, though probably a
long time ago, my military "career" was cut short by injury so it turned
out to be moot. Which sucked because I had never really even considered
doing anything else.
The smell thing actually doesn't equate to a jacked-up gakk factor,
though people usually assume that. It's really more of an ability to
discern the differences in odors as opposed smelling them more vividly.
It's almost like gradations of odors like tones of sound or shades of
color. When I first got married my ex-wife was amazed that I could
accurately sort my step-kids' clothes (they were very close in age and
the same size) and when I told her I did it by smell she thought I was
screwing with her, especially since we were talking about freshly washed
clothing. I said "You're their mother: you can't tell a difference in
how they smell, and smell their scent on their clothes even through the
soap scent?" I was surprised when she said no, and didn't really realize
until later hat most people can't do that. When I walk out on the porch
in the morning I can tell if deer have been in the yard the night before
because I can smell their pee, and if I get near snakes I can smell them
too. Reptiles have a distinct funk that I can detect over other odors.
I've been told that cranially I look more like a monkey than a person,
so maybe my genome isn't as different from a chimp's as the average
person's is!