Published on 12, July, 2020
Part of why I got an assessment was to access helpful adjustments at work, because I'm very sensitive to both sound and smell.
Currently the two people that sit next to me at work smell awful, and it's really inhibiting my working ability. They're also loud (talking, tea-slurping, apple eating, etc), but I can cover that by wearing headphones. The smell I cannot. I'm sure the guy on my left doesn't wash his clothes, and the guy to my right has terrible breath.
Does anyone else have this issue? Its' driving me mad, and my work cannot offer me a better place to sit.
"Do people smell bad to you?"
...Yes. I use smell uncommonly often. As if that is what it is for, detecting people who smoke, or smoke Cannabis, or are sweaty, or have not bathed in 32.5 Hours, or have just drunk something really sugary, or they have Influenza, or they are wearing Nylon, or they just have their Hormones switched Wayyyyy up... I myself smell all of that. (Horrible, bad, horrible.) It is useful at times, but not at all useful if it cannot be escaped. Kind of like Pollution, which I often see and smell, and if I mention it, people find it funny and say "...What pollution?"
My sense of smell is not as acute as yours but it is very sensitive. I can smell and taste pollution - and sometimes detect a trace of cannabis from a car speeding by. It's awful if something stinky happens like foul water flooding at work. My dog is quite smelly but I find her scent really appealing!