Omg this - people always ask me for advice because they think I’m on a “great diet,” (I don’t have Celiac, I have another autoimmune disease), and it’s like. No, it’s a coincidence I lost weight, it wasn’t the goal, I just wanted my rash to go away and to stop throwing up.

Stores like this are secretly a great help to the community. You just have to watch the store closely to see who frequents it, and then you have an entire list full of people that you should avoid in the future.

I remember reading a story about a woman who kept bees somewhere around NYC. One day, she got a shock when she checked the frames and found that the honey was bright red. She was very worried until she discovered that the bees had discovered a maraschino cherry factory. Red syrup was leaking out of some of their…

The thing that’s not being said, though, is that cross contamination IS an issue for people with Celiac’s. If this woman had Celiac’s, she, most likely, wouldn’t have been able to be eating the toast, before this, without major internal issues, so I’m guessing that THIS person doesn’t have Celiac’s, and probably…

Gotta love people who admit to knowing nothing about Celiac’s acting like they’re experts on cross-contamination.

Yes. My friend who is celiac went home violently ill after a restaurant cut her gluten free pizza with a regular knife. She didn’t complain- she just barfed all night.

If you really have Celiac and aren’t some kind of gluten-free trend follwer, it literally DOES make that kind of difference. I can’t kiss my boyfriend who has Celiac if I’ve been drinking beer for fear of cross-contamination. The thing is, he gets so sick if he is exposed, it is absolutely not worth the chance.

The woman in the story was coo-coo for coco puffs for sure, BUT seriously, not trying to be ‘that person’, but my boyfriend ACTUALLY has Celiac (like diagnosed by a real doctor, lol) and cross-contamination is a real thing that will cause him to have a flare up. And no, it’s not like a shellfish or chocolate allergy…

There are some people who are super sensitive to it. Preparation on the same cutting boards/toasters/ utensils is enough to make some people very, very sick.

Uhm...actually FUCK YES.

A coworker of mine has severe celiacs disease and if she even touches her daughter’s pasta or toasts her toast in the same toaster oven she. gets. sick.

It’s a fucking allergy, it works the same way.

Yes, it is that dangerous to celiacs. It’s an auto-immune disease; it takes just a trace of gluten to make a celiac’s immune system mount an attack on the celiac’s intestinal lining as not-self (that is, gluten makes their bodies make antibodies to their own lower digestive system). It won’t cause an anaphylactic…

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking too. I imagine him sitting at his desk with a Tony Montana style mound of coke in front of him, wiping his nose and deciding to hit the bar.

And for the times we need to make damn sure the message is clear, “all y’all”.

I do! But mostly because I read a book when I was a kid about a girl who realized she had cancer when she started getting mysterious brusies so every time I’m like, wait, no that’s where I walked into the door frame, not cancer this time!

YYYYAAAAAPPP, hi internet stranger twin! How about when you are trying to pull bed sheets up further when laying down and uppercut yourself in the nose? Because that is in the regular rotation as well.

literally me. yesterday I tried to open my office door on the wrong side (idk?) and ended up with a nasty bruise on my hip bone.

I’m with you. I’ve lived in the same place for almost 8 years and I regularly stub my toe on the finial coming out from the base boards. THEY HAVEN’T MOVED and I know they’re there. Why do I do it? I feel like I just don’t have good spatial recognition. At this very moment, I have a bruise on the bottom of my foot and…

The only thing that I hate more than PowerPoint is the contingent who declare PowerPoint as evil.

Yeah same here! Smashing my elbows into things and it doesn’t even hurt anything. Just yesterday I tripped on nothing with a big plastic cup of rasberry/blueberry smoothie in the work kitchen. Splattered EVERYWHERE, ceiling, people, behind the coffee machine.

Oh, haha, laugh at the pretty lady who falls down in her high heels and long dresses.
Don’t judge those of us who just don’t navigate physical space as well as the rest of you. Faceplants in busy public places are just one of my many talents. If there’s a sharp corner in a room, just one, I’ll find it. That narrow…