Another Food Sensitivity Post

I wrote this in 2019. I've since developed an egg allergy. 😬

Food Sensitivity Thoughts...

So, I have an intolerance that I can NEVER "cheat" on, and a sensitivity that I can occasionally "cheat" on.

For the intolerance (gluten) I still have a lot of opinions on food I can't have, because I used to eat that food. So, people sometimes say, "I thought you couldn't have that, " or, "If you've had it before, how can you not have it now...?"

Also, I have a sensitivity to soy. If I overload on it, I get migraines. That can mean eating just a tiny bit of soy every day for several days, or eating one large thing with soy in it, like a whole candy bar*. But, I can cheat a little, occasionally and be okay.

It kind of leads to some disbelief sometimes, or some, "why can't you bend the rules this once..."

But more than having it happen to me, I see it happen to others, and feel like I should be more careful about what I share.

Or, I think about my allergies. I have mild allergies to some foods that make me itch. I still might eat a small bite of those foods now and then, but I feel like I want to be able to refuse them when I need too, without seeming rude. My actions might make allergies seem not serious, but I know some people who could easily die, or require a visit to the emergency room, if exposed to their allergy foods.

There's a bit of policing, or disbelief about food sensitivities, allergies, and intolerances.

People experience sensitivities differently. My sensitivities are not your sensitivities. And, sometimes we don't even experience them the same from one day to the next.

I think it's important for people to know that.

*(Here is an acknowledgement that chocolate might actually be okay, because soy lecithin is questionable but not absolute, but I might have been dealing with some hidden soy sources)

my therapist: your ocd tells you that there are millions of things that you can't see that will kill or harm you in some way but that isn't true

me: okay! thank you!

my doctor: celiacs makes it so that there are millions of things you cannot see that will harm you or could kill you BTW

me: 😟

The feminine urge to sink my teeth into a loaf of bread and violently tear chunks out of it like a lion devouring its prey, letting out the occasional roar of triumph for effect

Celiac Disease and Gluten Allergy Pride Flags!

LILY!!!

My doctor says I have to be gluten free D:

AND YOUR BREAD!!! WHATS GONNA HAPPEN TO US?!?!??!!??

DON’T WORRY!! I commune with the gluten-free peoples! We are one.

Plus there’s gluten-free bread >:)

If gluten-free food company websites were honest:

"We all know gluten-free food tastes like cardboardy shit. So after our (probably fictional) family member was diagnosed with coeliac disease/gluten intolerance, we set out on a personal life quest to make gluten-free food taste slightly less shit - but never as good as gluten-containing food, because let's be realistic here! All while charging you double the price a wheaty food item would cost, because we know there's a gaping hole in your diet where bread and pasta used to be."

can i have a cookie?

pweas ?

Totally didnt fuck up on the size of dough balls i was supposed to make-

I just made dinner and it was an only-vegetable stir fry do you guys think that will fix me

I used to make pasta in a restaurant and would take pictures like these all the time. It was a lot of work but it was fun, got to be left alone for hours on end and listen to whatever I wanted, and just make lots of pasta. Sometimes I miss that job.

listen i know you shouldnt really look up health stuff and believe it, however, hear me out, yknow whatd be really funny

I might be gluten intolerant

Speaking of my grandmother, she's writing a cookbook. And the sibling and I have been recruited as editors - because we both love that sort of thing.

Mostly it's been really fun going through it all, and the memories that go with it, but also? I can't eat most of what's in that book, at least without serious modification. And it makes me a bit sad. This cookbook is explicitly about tradition and family memories, and I feel a bit cut off from that. It's not just me either - we have two other family members with gluten intolerance, and a few other food restrictions. My grandma has talked about trying to label gluten free recipes, but as is, this book just makes me feel left out. It's not even like I blame her for it - it's just the way everything is when you have a major food intolerance or allergy, especially one so ingrained in your culture. And the way it is really sucks.

After too many years here I've final what hornets' nests I am not brave enough to kick

OF FUCKING COURSE PAUL DANO’S LACTOSE INTOLERANT

hey :] so i have this link bc i was commenting on a reddit post, but i thought it’d be good to share here too. don’t be the one house to give out necco wafers and carrot sticks bc you want to be inclusive to people with celiac disease. there’s so much gluten free candy that’s just as enjoyable as candy with gluten. (fuck nestlé though, ignore that part). be the house to give out jellybeans, i would fucking scream (/pos) if i got jellybeans while trick or treating. be cool while also being mindful.

Us then: Yeah, for some reason we kinda collectively prefer gluten-free crust pizza. It’s just better, Y’know? Yeah. Only when Blue isn’t fronting though. Of course, pizza itself is something we can’t eat. Makes us sick. And we also just prefer gluten-free cookies. No idea why.

Us now: Goddammit it happened again…*

*referring to us showing obvious signs of something that we didn’t realize were obvious signs until we were outright told we had it (diabetes, being a system, and gluten intolerance)

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