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For real. It's hell out there if you're allergic to perfumes, or anything else for that matter. People douse themselves in the stuff and throw up a cloud of biological warfare. Not to mention trying to find shampoo or bodywash that won't make me sick.
At the laundromat I have to double check that nobody's left fabric softener or detergent in the little container things, and wipe down the dryer before it use it, or my clothes will literally burn my skin.
Tissues, which I go through in absurd quantities, are also cross-contaminated with all sorts of perfumes and other weird smells since COVID seems to have changed shipping practices. So now buying tissues is a total crapshoot, making me sick about half of the time, so i have to buy and open a bunch at once to let the worse ones offgas while I tolerate the least bad.
Stop perfuming everything, for the love of god.
I basically can't leave my house at this point. One old lady can break me for weeks if they get too close. Don't get me started about fall time and all the stores dump pumpkin spice in the entry way to the store.
Perfumes are a fucking blight. I wish people were more aware of how much they impact some people's lives.