celiaclilac

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im so sick and tired of constantly advocating for myself when it comes to food. like im just tired

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If you've ever told a person who's had to be bedbound for a period of time that you wish you could "just stay in bed", DO IT.

Stay in bed. For days. But don't get up if someone needs you to, or you get bored, or you get antsy. Don't do anything other than rest. Just lie in your bed, whether you need to get stuff done around the house or socialize or anything else "productive". You'll have to cancel on people, you'll disappoint them, they won't understand.

And if you're thinking, "well, i CAN'T just be in bed. There's stuff that has to be done - I have plans", maybe ask yourself why you assumed a disabled person doesn't have plans or things to do or desires.

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I MISSED CELIAC AWARENESS DAY YESTERDAY 🥴🥴🥴

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People who complain about plant milk or like lactose/gluten-free stuff are literally stupid. No other way to put it.

Why the hell are you mad at people having more options??? Why are you mad at celiac people getting to eat food they otherwise couldn't??

Your anger would be better if directed at actual problems, not "boo hoo there's too many milks"

+ plant milk is fucking delicious

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shoutout the dining hall at school for not accommodating me

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gotta love a random chronic illness flare up

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accidentally glutened myself today

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Why do chronically ill people, specifically those with bowel problems, eat trigger foods?

This is a question I ponder a lot as someone guilty of the same sin. As someone with EOE, gastritis, celiac, and a (currently undiagnosed, but suspected) form of irritable bowel disease, I think this comes from many things.

Eating such a restrictive diet is extremely disheartening. Your favorite foods? You can’t eat them anymore. The replacements or substitutes for those food? DOZENS of dollars, and let’s be real, us chronically ill and disabled people don’t make great money. I’m not even going to mention able-bodied people and their invasive questions.

“What happens if you eat that?”

Chronic diseases. These are socially isolating, and an embarrassing set of conditions. It should not have to be this way. The embarrassment should NOT exist. Able bodied people need to stop viewing us and our restrictions as “taboo”

And when us chronically ill Americans DO make decent money… it could go to all of those non-trigger foods, right? Nope! It goes right back into our treatment.

Trigger foods are often inexpensive. Allergen friendly foods don’t have 2/3 empty bags with a 2x price hike. The “allergy tax” is real — and DEADLY. The allergy tax NEEDS to be abolished. A complicated tax cutting process for us doesn’t mean shit, and that ultimately pathetic chump change doesn’t account for the HUNDREDS of dollars in losses every year from our ultra-specific diets.

Fuck America, fuck the FDA, and FUCK these supervillain able bodied CEO’s.

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found out i can’t eat edamame in large quantities anymore

streaks DO NOT HIT ME UP

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some of my favorite snacks as a baddie with a bunch of food allergies

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about me

bella

20

ask pronouns

diagnosed with celiac disease at 9

mostly gonna be blogging about food allergies

my blog is NOT a safe space for bigotry

[celiaclilac]

still trying to sort through the layers of this ableism & antifatness but it’s particularly painful that society treats eating gluten-free as something rooted in a desire for weight loss when

i gained more weight in the year after figuring out i have celiac than any other year of my life

including going up two shirt sizes

& going from being read as (small)fat but not having any access issues around size separate from mobility aids to being outside the bounds of straight sizing

because my body can absorb nutrients now

& for most people who ‘need’ to be eating gluten-free, you will gain weight!! & we, including those of us who were already fat, should be given space to celebrate that!! hallelujah that my body is still here to grow!!