#i'm tired of dominos gluten free pizza

[greaseonmymouth]

this is a hate crime against me specifically

[thepartyishere]

Yes!!! I've been diagnosed with celiac since elementary school, so around 9 years now. that was before being gluten free was common at all, anything specifically gluten free was super expensive (more than now) and kinda bad.

So I'd like to think I know what I'm talking about. celiac isnt technically an allergy but it's the same concept, I eat gluten I get miserably sick and it damages my intestines.

The number of times I've had people act like they know better than I do and have the authority to decide what I can and cant eat is incredible. I will tell them that just bc something is marketed as gluten free (domino's pizza for example) doesnt mean it's been made in a place free from contamination. I will tell them that eating that has made me sick in the past and they will insist that it's fine. I am not risking my health and wellbeing for the next few days over this. if I'm right, I'll be incapacitated in bed for at least a day.

in general, I think people need to care less about what others eat. Somone else's eating habits are none of your concern and you dont know their body and needs better than them. Theres also no way you know their allergy/condition/disability better than they do. if theres a miracle cure, theres no chance you'll know before they do.

Also, for gluten at least, finding food I can eat is so expensive. if there are a few brands of something, chances are only one is gluten free and it's the most expensive one. when that's the case for most things it really adds up. it sucks that finding food safe to eat is such a financial burden.

ALSO

I have literally heard people say that people with allergies should just stay home. and not ever eat out. How is it acceptable to just say stuff like that, that you dont want people to be safe in public and healthy.

I'm a person?? who wants to go to restaurants and socialize and should be able to safely. I really dont think that's so much to ask but maybe I'm wrong.

its tiring having to plan to bring food everywhere I go.

and its tiring watching everyone else enjoy the fun food they provide at work. when I decline they just push it on me until i have to say I'm allergic, then they get all awkward and sad. it sucks. same with when there would be parties at school or I'd get a reward I cant eat. it sucks.

anyways. yeah allergies and food restrictions absolutley impact every part of someone's life and they are not taken as seriously as they need to be.

I wasn’t going to derail the disability pride month post for people with peanut allergies but in relation to that topic

I have never seen another allergy that has been so viscerally hated and mocked by people working in education like nut allergies. I’ve seen fellow teachers cringe that their classroom was the “nut free” classroom that year. Support staff that are trained and willfully don’t follow cross contamination protocol in the lunchroom because it’s too “tedious” or “time-consuming”. Full preschools + childcare centers that refuse to accommodate nut allergies. Schools where the only free lunch is a PB&J. Before/after school programs and summer programs whose food curriculum has nuts and doesn’t provide an alternative activity.

Allergy discrimination is so so insidious and prevalent. It’s happening behind their back and it is everything from the exposure joke to possibly causing someone to go into anaphylaxis from willful ignorance.

Also other parents in the classroom are guilty too. The “not my child not my problem” brain rot means that those lunchboxes are like bombs for airborne exposure allergies