Re: Thinking about confronting someone who makes fun of me...

I know exactly what you're experiencing wandering winter. My heart breaks as I read what you're going through.

Where I worked people would literally walk over to my area to sniff up the area, spray air freshners, burst out laughing and walk away. There were a few nice folks who i would talk to who would say oh I don't smell anything because they knew how tormented I was by the problem and the constant badgering by co-workers I suffered.

Lucky for me I have a family member who is very honest and would tell me when the smell got really bad (like during menstruation) and would fill up our home.

Like you I couldn't take the constant harassment anymore and decided to go to HR and explain I had this horrible condition, and could overhear these horrible comments. The HR folks can speak to them and let them know you're aware of their discomfort, you have a disorder, and you are doing all you can to correct it.

In my case the other employees denied they were doing this and I explained that they were. Rather than go back and forth with denials i asked HR to please let them know that I am aware of it. I didn't really care about the denials. I knew for a fact what they were doing.

The harassment did lessen a great deal.. They would wait til I left the area instead of belittling me to my face and that at least allowed me to get my work done. This I think would be better than confronting them directly.