Am I overreacting about my family saying my room smells?

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I have no clue if this is the right subreddit but i feel like i’m going crazy and my family says i'm overreacting. The long and short of it is that my dad and my sister both say that my room stinks, like horrifically so. my sister went so far as to say she sometimes holds her breath when she’s walking past my room. I legitimately do not smell a thing and it’s starting to mess with my head. I don’t have a bad sense of smell in my opinion (if anything i think my dad and sister have oversensitive senses of smell, since they react strongly to any pronounced odour) but they keep saying that my nose must not work because of my allergies. i've tried spraying a perfume that i know is strong both because i can smell it and because they’ve complained about it, i’ve tried air freshener, i’ve tried burning incense when they’re not home and nothing seems to change their position even when i feel like im choking on perfumed air. I wash my sheets and clothes regularly, keep my windows open to let air circulate, don’t keep or eat food in my room and shower every night and i cannot smell this supposed stench anywhere. The only thing i think it could be is my ensuite which has some piping issues and poor ventilation, but even that doesn’t smell bad to me at all. i’m seriously at a loss here and whenever i ask them to describe the smell or suggest things i could do to fix it or even ask them to pinpoint where its coming from they act like I’m completely insane and tell me to do all the stuff that i’ve already been doing since i found out about the smell, and every time i tell them or show them that im washing my sheets or spraying air freshener or doing whatever i can they just say that it clearly isn’t working and brush it off. i have no idea what to do to fix it and everyone is saying i’m overreacting. i feel like the chick from gaslight and have no idea how to approach this.

Posted May 10, 2026, 12:39 AM UTC

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