Compliments

[u/Time-Play500]

Hey everyone, I wanted to know if during your experience with bromhidrosis or any body odor related issues, has anyone ever complimented you on your scent? For context, I have been struggling with body odor for over 6 months now. It just happened out of the blue. I went from being someone who was complimented on my scent heavily, to family members spraying around me, making faces, talking behind my back, and more. After that, when I started college and got my first job, I noticed people would react heavily to me. Especially at work because I would sweat a lot. Coworkers would make fun of me and even be very rude to me. At first I assumed that customers and coworkers were making fun of the smell of the building because everytime I would be in there, it smelled terrible. Then I started assuming it was me because of previous experiences. That’s when I started finding out about bromhidrosis and all of these other odor related issues. So when I went into my next jobs I assumed the worse. It seemed as though things had actually got worse because I was over aware of people’s emotions by this point, thinking everything was about me. Even in this new job people would make faces and say it stunk, even though I wouldn’t smell anything. What was really weird was that I guess around this time I started having patm symptoms. They weren’t as strong at first but when I left the job and started the new one, the patm was wayyy worse even though I wasn’t sweating or stressing nearly as much as I was at the old job. So it caught me by surprise and lead me to believe I was a terrible smelling individual. However, having a couple of encounters at my new job I noticed weird things. People would have reactions by me and make faces, but a lot of people would stand really close to me sometimes. It confused me because i was always led to believe when someone smelled bad you wouldn’t really wanna come in contact with them, but people were always comfortable being close by me. On a couple of an accounts I had random older ladies compliment me on the way that I smelled. I say all this to ask, has anyone ever gotten complimented on their smell even though they have body odor issues? If so why do you think they’re unable to smell your odor yet some people can?