Asperger's making it difficult to adequately explain

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Some of you might remember I posted recently about my struggle caused by body odor viewtopic.php?t=392202 after I started taking bipolar meds and I started to smell like rotting cabbage. Before then, people used to comment on my spicy smell, and I've always had excessive sweating since I was a child and I used to get picked on at school for my strong curry odor but this came from me being brought up on eating a lot of curry and spices from being from a Pakistani family.

When I go to the nearby mosque for the prayer session, people around me wrinkle their noses and the feeling of embarrassment makes my excessive sweating a whole lot worse so I can smell my rotting cabbage odor myself.

Nobody ever says anything to me though until I went early morning today for prayer session and as everybody was leaving afterwards, someone takes me to one side and starts giving me a lecture on how in Islam one is expected to keep a good level of cleansliness. I feel myself burning in the face with embarrassment and can begin to smell my cabbage odor again as my sweating intensifies and I want to explain to him I can't help my body odor for medical reasons but the words won't come out and I just nod numbly and go on my way.

I feel like having Asperger's Syndrome is making trying to explain things when I'm put on the spot in situations like this difficult.

Sorry it is effecting you in this way.

Write it down like you can write here so you can show what you write to those in your Mosque.
Also ask your doctor if there is something that can be done so that you don't smell.
It is not your fault. Others also do not understand unless it is explained to them so don't feel bad.

I like eating curry as well, just not as often as I would like.

More water, more soap, followed by deodorant. That's just how it works. I hope your family will let you bathe as much as you need.

If your meds make the food you eat come out in your sweat,
you either need to change medication or change your diet in order to stop the smell

I also recommend cleaning or perhaps even shaving under your arm pits and other sources of hair
as hair often carries smells, shaving it off will make sure that it can not carry the smell

as for food
if you eat a lot of fruit, this will also come out in your sweat

i also recommend taking daily showers, if not more than one shower a day.
cleaning thoroughly with soap

you could also get some type of deodorant and or aftershave

if you have a beard, perhaps you could consider keeping that short, or perhaps even a goatee
and keep it well trimmed

also to prevent the hair carrying smell

otherwise i wish you luck on your quest to become less smelly