myrmepropagandistFeb 25

I hate how my allergies make me seem like a republican.

Can't eat sunflowers so people think I hate "seed oils" (the other ones are fine, it's just the sunflowers they are deadly)

Can't eat most vegan meats because these people always want to put sunflowers 'n nuts and chickpeas in them.

Generally suspicious of vegan food because of the whole nut issue, even though I really like it when there are no nuts.

Show threadmyrmepropagandistFeb 25

What makes this worse is restaurants who can't tell you their ingredients lists. I just give up and get the most basic foods.

Then there are the things that no one believes: like the "shelled peanut problem"

I can eat peanuts, love them! but not if they have been shelled in a "facility" because whatever they do it gets some kind of other nut dust on them and down i go! Toss me the epipen it's gonna be a long night.

Allergies are so odd. Obscure but serious ones are annoying.

Show threadMx. Aria StewartFeb 25
@futurebird SERIOUSLY. The human immune systems are _so weird_.
Show threadmyrmepropagandistFeb 25

@aredridel

I really want to know if I was born this way or if it is caused by what foods I ate when I was young?

My husband can't tolerate apple peels. Just the peels, the inside is fine. I wonder what the strangest food allergy must be?

Show threadWharrrrrrgarbl
@futurebird @aredridel it's both. Immune development is a contingent process that involves genes you're born with, random modification of those genes to generate cells which produce a variety of immunoglobulins, and then selection of those cells based on a balance of self-reactivity and environmental reactivity to determine what exactly makes the adaptive immune system you face the world with. Lots of places it can go wrong, or at least inconvenient.
Feb 25 at 3:00amWeb