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How Can You Defend Those People?: An Answer You Didn't See Coming

That is the question I hear most often about the work that I do? Those people . As if you didn't know that the line between us and those people wasn't razor-thin. Being accused of doing something wrong is by far the most isolating thing you will ever experience. When I say "wrong" I mean anything that is frowned upon by the rule-makers (i.e. breaking the law.) You may not break the law, but you break wind. By a mechanism that I still don't understand, the digestive process, not only creates urine and poo, but an ethereal noisome phenomenon known colloquially as a fart. Farts can be loud or quiet, concussive or delicate, wet or dry...you get it. The problem is we pass gas, but no one likes to talk about it. What's even more upsetting is that IF you have the misfortune of passing detectable gas (noisy or really funky) in a room and you look like you did it, people will walk away from you. As they escape your stink, they tell someone else in the roo...