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“Omg look at this fucking shit, gluten free mascara, ahaha, people need to be fucking stopped.”

Yes, I’m sure the person with a wheat allergy wanting to avoid putting wheat containing things near their eyeballs is truly the reason society is failing.

Also if anyone does actually need gluten free mascara, Zuzu Luxe is one of the best I’ve been able to find. Hardly clumps and doesn’t flake off like a lot of the others. Their other products can be a little hit or miss texture wise, but the mascara is great.

I once saw a person point out that common allergens are in so many things, and it even has to do with “this facility uses it in another product but it’s still the same facility” and I stopped laughing. And then I felt bad. I was ignorant, but I didn’t think about like. My corn tortillas better not have gluten! They’re corn! And then I realized….same facility. Airborne particulates. Someone working on one line, accidentally dropping particulates in another line just by walking past.

Cause there are people who are *that* sensitive. And they deserve to be protected and have safe products.

I specifically do not take issue with people just not knowing things. Cause why the heck would anyone know things like that unless they ever had to? Why would you know wheat is a common ingredient in things like mascara or shampoo? I sure as shit didn’t till I started to piece together why my body went into meltdown every time I washed my hair.

What does get to me is how inherently shitty some people are about it. Like why is the first go to for things like this mockery? Why? I mean I know the answer is “society is inherently abelist even if people don’t realize they are doing it” but I’m still allowed to be frustrated by it. (It’s the same with infomercials. Those products are not lazy or worthless, they are designed for people with disabilities!)

And I know this seems like such an over reaction to something like someone in Walgreens being shitty over gluten free mascara haha. But it’s so much more than that.
So much of my daily life is emotional and mental labor just trying to spoon feed people how not to be unthinkingly mean all the time. And
it’s not like I can ever stop because this is my life. I am living in a
world not designed or meant to include me, so constant emotional and
mental labor is required to justify both myself and the things that make
my life easier.

And I wish people would just think with a little more kindness sometimes. That’s all.

Hey uh so, full disclosure here, my dad is gluten intolerant/has celiac disease, and I didn’t know that having non-food gluten-free products was important too… I thought it only affected you if you ate the thing.

So then I think the problem is that people don’t know enough about gluten-free and think it’s some fad, because if you’re not gluten intolerant/cursed with celiac disease, then going gluten-free has no benefits, right? (not knowing these things still doesn’t excuse people mocking others’ needs, though.)

The thing is neither do a lot of people with celiac disease. It’s not something all doctors mention to their patients as a possible source for issue or contamination (why? usually because the doctor diagnosing it will be a GI doctor and not always an immunologist, and that’s a problem cause celiac is an auto-immune disease), so a lot of us wind up wondering why we are still presenting with flare ups and other issues when our diet is so strict and we do everything we can to control symptoms through diet.

The latest trend of using wheat by-product to make compostable paper plates and cups has me on edge too, cause I’ve been handed a cup of water in one of those cups at a venue before and not realized until I’ve drank most of it and felt my throat start to constrict and realized that I am in Danger. And I’d have never known Why if the person hadn’t started talking about their cool hippy biodegradable cups which I thought were paper, but were paper spliced with wheat-by-product.

And the thing is, those things are marketed as “allergen safe” cause in theory the protein has been processed to death, but as anyone with severe allergies or celiac will tell you, even the smallest, tiniest amount can be enough to trigger a reaction.

So you’re right, not enough people understand what it is, or how severe it can be. And you could argue that part of this is because people treat it like a fad diet and a thing to be mocked vs say, a peanut allergy where people (though not everyone) respects the severity of what that can entail. But honestly, given how prevalent wheat allergy has become in the last couple of decades, it doesn’t surprise me that a lot of people, even those without actual celiac, have found some sort of relief through cutting out wheat products (ie their issue is not necessarily gluten but wheat) so in all honesty, who gives a shit. Allergies, diseases and yes, even food preferences need to be fucking respected. Which they currently are not.

“Why would you know wheat is a common ingredient in things like mascara or shampoo?” 

Well fuck me sideways, I never would have guessed and I have a wheat allergy.

YIKES. i did not know this. i have no idea whether the bath products i buy for my family have wheat in them, because it never occurred to me that such a thing was possible, so i never checked. i hope i haven’t been making nick sick with shampoo!

i used to laugh at things being labeled gluten-free that i thought would be without wheat by default, and i assumed it meant the manufacturer was jumping on a fad diet bandwagon. i wasn’t being ableist, i just had no idea that celiac was more like a peanut allergy than like lactose intolerance. so when i saw ‘gluten free’ on an item that had never had wheat in it to begin with – gluten free cheese or whatever – i would kinda sneer at it and go “ugh, they’re making it into a fad so they can jack up the prices, like they did with ‘organic’ ten years ago.”

there IS a fad, though, and it sucks. because it means things are getting called gluten free that aren’t, on the assumption that the kale smoothie brigade won’t know the difference, since they don’t actually have celiac and all their Amazing Results are just placebo effect. then nick eats it and gets sick and the whole family has steam coming out of our ears because the idiot who put that label on there is too far away to hit with a frying pan.

Had this very conversation with a coworker at the pet store a few years ago because we had a few dog foods labelled as “gluten free” when. gluten isn’t really a specific allergy for dogs, it tends to be all grains or somehow they can sort of manage any (even though they’re not good for them), but their humans can sure have that allergy. She immediately went “oh my god I didn’t think of that.”

so yeah. that’s kind of important.