At 13 I discovered an awful smell that followed me everywhere I go .And no matter how much I shower or put on deodorant or wash my clothes doesn't go away. I have lost all my friends absolutely everyone talks behind my back including janitors, teachers,cashiers, "friends",cab drivers, people on the train with me, even some of my cousins. The constant taunts of telling me to wash which many people assume I have never done. I've tried to get a job but no one will hire my because of this smell that seeps from my very pores. When I ask people for favors non one wants to be around me. It is a struggled everyday to get excepted to a college. The bullying is endless. Ive had obscenities shouted at me from 20 feet away. My family refuses to talk about it which somehow they think makes it go away but it only leaves me with no one to talk to. My life is constant hell! Constant fucking hell! I have been kicked out of many places and asked to leave because my smell was disturbing the customers. There was a time on a plane trip that I was kicked off because the passengers refused to ride with me until I " took a shower". Little do they know at that point showering is an obsession that gets me nowhere it merely wastes soap. This fish boy is who I have become. I am no longer Miguel Hernandez I am fish boy. I got to the point where I wasn't allowed in the school gym because the smell is carried in my sweat( TMAU can be smelled through breathe, nostril, scalp, tears, sweat, etc).I was ready to commit suicide and the choice to live is a constant struggle. Ive talked to my parents and have been mocked by doctors. But finally at age 15 I decided to take matters into my own hands.
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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...
