Paige Sparks is a US attorney. In the video, she breaks down why fragrance in a USA business violates the ADA and goes over past lawsuits that set precedent. In the USA, we don't have to put up with fragrance in any business.

Don't forget the power we have to stop fragrance in public spaces, thanks to law firm Cole Van Note! Anyone can fill out a list of businesses that sell scented products, have scented products on site, or allow fragrance on employees (including wearing scented laundry). The firm will file for free, we never pay anything. And it will result in clear, strong, enforced scent-free policies at that business.

We don't have to put up with secondhand scent or fragrance assault any more. Fill out the form, and win the fight for clean air!
https://colevannote.com/fragrance-experience-form/

I don't care what "internet sez," for me fragrances and scents definitely trigger seizures. It has made life so difficult! I have even had trouble accessing medical care because staff are wearing so much scented everything. Laundry, lotions, perfumes. It's too much. It has nothing to do with emotions or memories, it's any chemical fragrance. These scents have the same chemical toxins as cigarettes, it's not a far leap that they're harmful.

Fragrance assault has become a social norm, just like smoking used to be. People's laundry fragrances are especially intense, and the constant scent assault has become really difficult in public. "Just wear a mask" isn't a solution, the scents come right in; saying "just wear a mask" is honestly ableist. These new fragrances are also so much stronger overall and everyone is wearing too much, and it also triggers asthma attacks.

I wanted to leave a comment on an older thread but it was locked, so I'm posting a new one.

I wish people would cool it with the secondhand scent. "Sillage" isn't pretty, it's code for "I don't care about others, eat my chemical fume trail." Fragrance is hurting others, period.

I'm so grateful that there are waves of class action lawsuits in the USA against fragrance use in businesses, that's how big of a problem scent has become. The argument is that fragrance is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and as someone who can't enjoy public spaces anymore because of scent on others, I agree. Scents and fragrances make public spaces inaccessible to people with chemical sensitivities, asthma, autism, and people with epilepsy. The big class action firm has even listed Disney! Disney pumps massive fragrances and scents into all its parks and hotels, everywhere, so many people can't safely go. Also, Whole Foods, because they use scented cleaning products, don't have a fragrance free employee policy so everything tastes like the employee's cologne and scented lotion, and those awful scented soap and candle towers.

Anyway, for anyone out there who struggles with seizures caused by fragrance and scent, you're not alone. We have the right to keep advocating against fragrance in public spaces, for me and many others scent is even worse than a cigarette.

This satirical article perfectly captures the realities of fragrance assault!

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2719299355119066

Die_OpBros isn't making fun of doctors, they are making fun of patients.

Abusive doctors like this make life a nightmare for patients with disabilities. The video is mocking patients who have had to become educated enough in their own care journeys to use words like "dyspnea" (that is "shortness of breath") and "tachycardia" (that just means a fast heart rate).

If a doctor is pissed that a patient knows what tachycardia is, what does that say? But if patients are "ignorant," then they roll their eyes at that, too.

I am so tired of constant medical abuse! Attitudes like this are what is wrong with medicine.

Patients cannot win. If we know how to talk to doctors, they get angry and blow us off. If we don't know the right words, they scoff and blow us off.

I am tired of rampant ableism in the medical community, from doctors and nurses specifically. These people make money off of sick people and treat us like crap while demanding to be treated like heroes. But too often they are not doing their jobs at all.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2719299355119066

Die_OpBros isn't making fun of doctors, they are making fun of patients.

Abusive doctors like this make life a nightmare for patients with disabilities. The video is mocking patients who have had to become educated enough in their own care journeys to use words like "dyspnea" (that is "shortness of breath") and "tachycardia" (that just means a fast heart rate).

If a doctor is pissed that a patient knows what tachycardia is, what does that say? But if patients are "ignorant," then they roll their eyes at that, too.

I am so tired of constant medical abuse! Attitudes like this are what is wrong with medicine.

Patients cannot win. If we know how to talk to doctors, they get angry and blow us off. If we don't know the right words, they scoff and blow us off.

I am tired of rampant ableism in the medical community, from doctors and nurses specifically. These people make money off of sick people and treat us like crap while demanding to be treated like heroes. But too often they are not doing their jobs at all.

Has anyone else noticed that almost all names they're encountering are tragedeighs or tragedeigh flavored? I'm seeing mostly tragedeighs or "fancy" tragedeighs, everywhere, it's the norm.

I don't know the last time I met a Jane or William. And not only little kids, but people in their 30s. I am probably the only one, but I miss normal names that don't take three minutes to re-spell over on the phone, if I can understand the name at all because it is so you-neek it is clearly made up, or have vowels swapped around, or extra vowels, or missing vowels. These ultra you-neek names are a Payneh Eyuhn theea Assuh

If you are having seizures because of the endless animations on google's home page (I am!), please contact google and use this text to complain.

Google Disability Support Team
https://support.google.com/accessibility/answer/7641084?hl=en

I am writing to report an urgent accessibility problem with the looping World Cup animation on Google Search in Chrome on macOS.

The animation loops continuously and cannot be disabled via any obvious setting. This type of repetitive motion is a known trigger for photosensitive seizures and other serious neurologic symptoms. It also creates significant difficulty concentrating and using your products safely.

I have already:

• Disabled Google Labs / AI features in my account
• Checked Chrome and macOS accessibility settings
• Searched online for an official way to disable this animation

There does not appear to be any built‑in option to turn off this specific animation or similar event‑based animations. Users should not be forced to install third‑party extensions just to avoid seizure‑inducing visual effects.

I respectfully request that Google:

1. Provide an immediate way to disable this and similar animations (for example, a toggle on the page or a global “no motion / no celebrations” preference tied to the account or to system “Reduce Motion” settings), and
2. Ensure that future special animations fully comply with accessibility standards, including WCAG guidance on flashing and motion.

Please treat this as an accessibility and health/safety issue, not a cosmetic preference. I would appreciate a response describing what steps Google will take to mitigate this risk and to provide a persistent opt‑out from such animations.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

that is all

I have talked to the managers, but this has been going on for months now and I give up. My area chick-fil-a restaurants are all serving food that is coated in cologne and perfume and scented lotion stuff from employees. It's so gross! Everything tastes like their scented lotions and I can't do it anymore.

Chickfila is supposed to be better and it's more expensive, I don't want to smell other people's scented products on my food and I don't want to eat their cologne residue. The managers just shrug because they are wearing as much as the employees.

My whole family has asthma and this is no joke, fragrance that other people can smell is rude man. Nobody wants to smell other people's scents, and nobody wants food covered in cologne.

Every company claims their toilet paper is septic safe (looking at you, Charmin, you big liar), but this isn't always true. Is bamboo toilet paper ok for septic? Truth time!

It's getting to the point where I have to return 90% of what I buy from Amazon, Target, Costco or Walmart because everything smells so strongly of tide and downy (or Gain!). I am so sick of Downy Butt contaminating everything from vitamins to new clothes. P&G changed all their detergents and fabric softeners in 2025 to make the scents much stronger, and now everything their laundry products are stored near just plain stinks.

I'm a caregiver to a person who is remote and home bound, so we have to use these major retailers. I can't shop elsewhere for everything, these are my main or only choices. CVS and Walgreens have also become problematic, everything from there smells and tastes like laundry products. It's so gross! No way is this safe. We are not supposed to eat laundry detergent, and I don't want to eat food that tastes like laundry detergent either.

The fragrance contamination doesn't wash out of brand new fabrics, even after weeks of trying everything. We are fragrance free because we all have asthma... One in twelve people does too. Plus tons of people have allergies, MCS, autism, Lyme, and other medical conditions and disabilities that cause severe fragrance intolerance are affected. These are not small groups of people.

It's crazy that we can't get anything from any of these major retailers now because of these intense laundry smells, and they don't go away or air out, even with time.

We are getting asthma attacks when we open most amazon (or target, walmart, even costco) packages, the smell is so strong and doesn't air out. I wish all these major retailers would refuse to sell tide, downy, and gain because those products now make everything stored near them stink and taste like chemicals. Nothing gets these smells out now!

Costco used to be safest, but now they sell so many of these laundry scent beads and scented laundry products that everything really reeks. It's not fair to have new things arrive already smelling contaminated like Downy Butt. Nasty!

It's getting to the point where I have to return 90% of what I buy from Amazon because everything smells so strongly of tide and downy. P&G changed all their detergents and fabric softeners in 2025, and now everything their laundry products are stored near stinks. Food tastes like detergent and fabric softener, and it doesn't wash out of brand new fabric. My house is fragrance free because we all have asthma... One in twelve people has asthma, we’re not a minority. It's crazy that we can't get anything from amazon now because of these intense laundry smells, and they don't go away even with time.

We are getting asthma attacks when we open most amazon packages, the smell is so strong and doesn't air out. I wish all these major retailers would refuse to sell tide, downy, and gain because those products now make everything stored near them stink and taste like chemical cleaners--forever. Nothing gets these smells out now!

Amazon, please do better!

https://preview.redd.it/d116fk2m8x0h1.png?width=941&format=png&auto=webp&s=8de17a6191ce29738519797a817f215b7d9a9c7d

I saw this poster on my facebook feed, I wondered what my fellow asthmatics thought of it. I am really tired of smelling other people's fragrance and cologne and scented laundry stuff everywhere I go, it makes it hard to breathe. What do yall think? It's kind of aggressive, but honestly imo so is monster fragrance. I thought it was interesting at least