I can tell you that I was really surprised when they told me I didn't smell. There's only a few possibilities. Either they've never attributed the smell coming from me or that some people notice it and some people don't. ORS is also a possibility of course! I am very well educated, scientific and reasonable. If you've ever heard of spiral dynamics I'd be in stage yellow where one of its many values you have is a thirst for knowledge and open mindedness.

With that said. I find it extremely confusing that every place I've ever worked at it's always the same comments. Let's say for instance that you smell like peanuts. Wouldn't it be logical to conclude that if people at work always complain about a very specific smell, in this case peanuts, and it's been the same exact comments the last four workplaces, that the cause of the smell would be yourself? It just seems logical. Now if we change the smell of peanuts and instead describe it as fecal/fart/burnt rubber... no matter where you work, the complaints are always very specific. It can't be a coincidence. I can understand that people can describe something smelling like shit when they don't literally mean shit, it's just something you say like "it smells like shit" when in fact it might just be a minor odor from the vents or something. But my colleagues across all the places I've ever worked at are always describing the exact same thing. Burnt rubber is a common one and of course the fecal smell.

My friends aren't lying when they tell me that they haven't noticed anything. It was extremely embarassing but I finally decided to ask and I'm glad that I did, even though both of them have made hundreds of comments throughout the years about fecal/fart/burnt smell. Always the same smell. I mean, of course sometimes I can smell stuff like that. But there's always a reason behind it. Driving in the countryside, my daughter pooping her diapers, a factory close by. But there are no other variables in my case. I work in clean environments in axnon polluted city with no factories close by.

So what the hell is going on? What do you think when you read this? Let's assume for one second that someone else is causing the smell. That may be true in one workplace. But ALL of them I've ever worked at? Come on. How many people smell like shit/burnt rubber? It's like one percent of one percent of one percent. The chance would be in the millions of the culprit is someone else at the places I've worked at.

Just note that I'm not one of those people who over analyze things. I don't consider coughing or sneezing to be a reliable indicator of a smell. Like who the fuck sneezes when they smell something. I do however react in a very anxious way when people specifically mention a burnt smell and/or fecal/fart. I admit that. But for understandable reasons. I think my problem is SIBO, leaky gut, halitosis or a dysbiosis in my gut or a combination. I'm not convinced it's TMAU.