[Ann24283]

Unfortunately, food-specific allergies started to become part of the zeitgeist at about the same time as ‘Environmental Allergies,’ which are utter horsesh*t. As a result of this, a lot of people can’t bring themselves to believe that someone could possibly be allergic to one food, or one group of foods, and tend to lump food allergies in with the ‘Environmental Allergy’ fairy tale. In a lot of people who grew up in the ’50s through the ’70s, there’s also the perception that a claim of ‘food allergies’ is just an excuse for a neurotically picky eater, and the Puritan urge to ‘cure’ this, or ‘punish’ the person for ‘lying’ kicks in. In fact, some years ago when I lived in Wisconsin, a Martha Stewart wannabe made the news because she killed a little boy with a severe peanut allergy by essentially force-feeding him one of her ‘special home-made’ peanut butter cookies after he politely refused to take one. She berated him into picking up one of the cookies and taking a bite. Within 30 seconds he was in full anaphylactic shock, and by the time the paramedics arrived seven minutes later, he was dead. Please, please protect your daughter from your brother at all costs, because of all the food allergies, legume and shellfish allergies are the most likely – by an order of magnitude – to produce fatal reactions.

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Name : Ann24283, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : Kansas City, State : MO, Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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