Adolescence a weird time in someone's life a time where everything you could be bullied about makes you a target. The worst time to have to live through. Kinda makes you wish we could all go back to being 5 year olds eating crayons and glue. The good ol' days. But unfortunately that is when many people simultaneously are most likely to develop embarrassing medical conditions. Of fucking course. Well let me tell you the first day I had realized that was true for me. I was 13 at the time and had a really bad year with my kidney problems ( which many people who acquire TMAU later in life have) and there were times where when I ate certain foods( like fish or broccoli) I would smell really bad but it would be temporary then it would go away. I was never aware of those times until I look back at it now. But then there was the dreaded 2 months of my life that made me realize something was seriously wrong with me. I started over hearing people say stuff about me. This time no matter what I ate I would smell. Though I couldn't smell it myself I overheard people say
" Oh that guy reeks".
There was one incident on the train that made me realize that it wasn't going away .
I had gotten on the 4 train and I saw this girl from my school that I had liked and decided to sit next to her. She immediately covered her nose, her eyes watered,and started gagging but that wasn't the worst part. As I got off of the train a man walked past me and said
" Who are your parents kid? Like take a shower for once or something. Yeesh I've met homeless kids who don't smell as bad. I mean you smell like rotten fish( the smell TMAU is famously associated with)".
The fact that a grown man would humiliate a child just disgusts me. This is the day I realized something was going on.
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Life Stinks : Life with TMAU( Fish Odor Syndrome)
General FictionAdolescence is hard enough but nobody knows that better than Miguel " Mikey" Hernandez. Since Mikey was 5 he has had kidney problems leading him to wet himself until he was 8. At 13 Mikey starts emitting a fishy body odor he is unaware of. Due to hi...
