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Let me begin by saying I’m on the spectrum and I’m making this post because I want to be sure I’m not the problem.I work as a morning security guard at a hospital. The morning shift consists of me, another guard, and my supervisor. I’ve only been back at work for three days after I was forced to miss multiple shifts due to having walking pneumonia. And while I’m better now, the main problem now is the persistent cough. I can’t wear a mask due to my glasses fogging up and not fitting properly and I haven’t found a cough suppressant that actually works, probably because it’s in my airway. So for most of the shift, I’m sitting in the office and every so often I would look away from my coworker and cough a few times. My supervisor has his own office so it doesn’t bother him.My coworker, I’ll call her Mary, is clearly paranoid about catching what I had. She wears a mask and is constantly spraying Lysol. Never directly spraying me, but making the air thick with chemicals. Today we reached a point where I couldn’t handle it.I came back from doing something in the hospital and sat down. Apparently Mary had sprayed Lysol and some kind of cologne she had. Within moments I was coughing, and it grew into absolutely hacking. I was soon lurched over the trash can with my eyes watering, face red, nose running, head pounding and coughing so deep and hard I was almost driven to my knees. Mary had to leave to handle something, and I was mostly calmed down by the time she got back. I managed to request that she please stop spraying so much Lysol, perfume, cologne and everything she was doing. I apologized for making her paranoid, but what she was doing was clearly making me worse.She apologized for possibly causing my hacking fit, but she didn’t stop. I went to go handle another call and when I came back I smelled the same mixture of cologne and Lysol newly applied. After coughing some more, admittedly not as hard as before, I went into the supervisors office and complained, telling him that what she was doing was physically affecting me and made me cough so hard I almost vomited.He said he would speak to her, but I’m afraid I crossed some kind of line. So I ask, AITA?
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