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For me at least, most of the other debilitating chemicals appear in predictable and semi-avoidable contexts. Traffic chemicals appear strongest on busy motorwa
by o11c 1y ago
For me at least, most of the other debilitating chemicals appear in predictable and semi-avoidable contexts.
Traffic chemicals appear strongest on busy motorways with stagnant air, where people outside of cars don't spend much time.
Flower chemicals can cause problems but usually dissipate within 10 feet or so.
Fresh rain primarily eliminates free-floating chemical attacks and does not cause one itself.
Cooking is self-regulating because the person actively triggering the chemical emission is exposed much more strongly than people elsewhere even in the same room.
Grass can only be crudely avoided or mitigated during the seasons where it's problematic. (Thank God for COVID bringing awareness that masks make it physically easier to breathe.)
But perfume? You never know when you'll run across a person who chooses to be a targeted, walking violation of the Hague Convention. There's no way to mitigate this other than avoiding people entirely (which some people do choose to do, but which has negative side effects).
That said, in recent years I find the perfume from cleaning supplies or laundry supplies to be more problematic than the perfume from people.
- nick__m 1y agoI completely agree with everything you said with emphasis on your last three paragraphs.
- jsbg 1y agothis all contradicts this part > not because someone wears to much or smell to intensely a normal perfume/cologne wearer is not going to smell 10 feet away also > Fresh rain primarily eliminates free-floating chemical attacks and does not cause one itself. yes, petrichor
- o11c 1y agoIt's never about the smell. There are many unpleasant scents out there that do not count as a chemical attack. And when specific flowers count as a chemical attack, their scent is still pleasant (and proportional). I'm aware of petrichor existing. I'm not aware of it ever effecting a chemical attack the way perfumes do.
- jsbg 1y ago> (and proportional) again, no one is arguing that people who wear too much perfume are not obnoxious > a chemical attack what chemical?
- o11c 1y agoMy point is: the chemical-attack portion of perfumes can far exceed the scent component. So even a modest application that most people can't even smell still counts as a targeted assault against some of us. If I have my inhaler at hand, that feels like pulling knives out of my lungs - better than before, but the wound remains. But we don't expect people to get much work done if they've been stabbed today.
- plaguuuuuu 1y agoSounds pretty messed up, from memory there are some new meds for allergic/immune things, I remember looking at one for my eczema but its not that severe so the sid-eeffects weren't worth