Rice?! Geez. He wins the shitty body award. That’s fucking awful.

So sorry to hear that. I’ll let you know if I find any good resources. When I was on FODMAP I usually had designated substitutes and just replaced them in the original recipe. I was a vegetarian for 20 years. Quite honestly? That diet sucks.

Yeah I was really hoping this was gonna be real. My roommate was just diagnosed with IC (Interstitial Cystitis) and she can’t have tomatoes, chocolate, alcohol, raw onions, anything spicy or citrusy, sharp cheeses and much more (AKA everything good). I was really hoping to give her a cookbook or something for…

My dad cannot eat or drink. At all. All of his nutrition and hydration comes by way of a syringe of formula inserted in a port in his belly. You wanna whine about a guest making your dinner party a little awkward, come at me. If your guest eats food, you’re doing good.

Yeah, in recent years I have figured out I’m lactose intolerant (I tried talking to my doc but she’s all like, well, if you feel better not eating dairy then don’t eat dairy. And I’m all like, but I <3 cheese!) and every once in a while I get a friend or colleague that acts like it is an inconvenient dietary choice.

Thank you! I have gastroparesis which is a paralysis of the muscles that move food along through your digestive tract. I throw up almost every thing I eat. I’m losing weight without trying because I simply can’t eat. My GI doctor from the Cleveland Clinic told me no fruits, vegetables and only very easy to digest…

My D&D GM is constantly discovering new and exciting foods that are trying to kill him. :( He’d already had nut allergies, but now there’s rice and oranges and pretty much anything processed (sneaky seed oils!) in there too, and he thinks shellfish are also starting to say “Time to die!” It’s super depressing to have…

This. I don’t expect people to cater to my inability to break down certain foods, and always either eat before I go or pack something for myself UNLESS I’m explicitly told they *are* making something I can eat. I give a huge amount of props to my sister because she always makes sure I can eat whatever she’s serving…

THANK YOU. I was that exact person - I struggled for years with digestive problems that no one could diagnose, and had gotten so bad that I had developed severe anxiety and agoraphobia and had to be medicated to get out my door in the mornings. I finally found a gastroenterologist that had me do the FODMAP diet for…

Yeah, after fighting Lyme disease for 2 years and ruining my intestines with antibiotics, I don’t need friends who are giggling at me or consider me a pain in the ass. Don’t invite people if you’re not happy to have them there. By the way it’s not always allergies, sometimes it’s FODMAP which is malabsorption and can…

The language changing and growing to fulfill the needs of its speakers is both necessary and beautiful. Everybody being too lazy to learn the language to the point where the incorrect usage becomes the accepted usage is maddening and disgusting.

How is using slave twice more redundant than the word workers followed by work?

Good for her. I don’t doubt that her relationships with her costars and nieces and nephews are extremely meaningful and valuable and life affirming for everyone involved. But it’s not the same as being a mother. I don’t say this to diminish her experience, nor to exalt mine. It's just not the same.

I think the issue is her saying she is mom to young actors. Maybe mentor or friend is a better word. I gotta be real...being a mom is NOT like those things. At all. In any way, shape or form. I don’t say this to demean relationships people have that feel nurturing. I have people I feel that way about. The relationship…

Here’s the thing that’s different about what she does than what a parent does. If you’re a parent the child/ren never leave. Nobody fills your spot long-term.

Even Simon Ross, the chief executive of Population Matters, had something to say. This is his letter to the Guardian.

I think the problem with this is that she equates being motherly, and being a mentor, with being a literal mother. And no, no it is not the same.

Compassion is not blindly patting someone on the back and saying every thought is a precious snowflake.

I’m suggesting my diagnosis couldn’t be pinpointed with a Google search. Before I finally went to therapy, I had no idea my particular anxiety disorder even existed. I thought I was just broken and would never be fixed, in part because all I’d ever heard was that therapy was a waste of time and money.

That’s your experience. It’s not the experience of everyone else. Talk therapy has been hugely beneficial for me, and so have the right meds. Without both, I wouldn’t be functioning. I probably wouldn’t be alive. The right therapist can be an important tool that provides an outlet for bottled up issues and a means of…