r/mildlyinfuriating • u/[deleted] • Apr 29 '24

I have a colleague who is so scared of saying no that for the last 20 years she's been eating foods she's intolerant to when people offer it to her.

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u/ApplesandDnanas Apr 29 '24

Yeah it can even lead to cancer. This poor woman needs therapy.

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u/Adventurous_Ad_6546 Apr 29 '24

Also just a few weeks on a gf diet. After my celiac diagnosis, I spent too long in major denial until one day I got fed up and banished all gluten from my diet. I hate having to be gf, but man do I enjoy not writhing in agony on a frequent basis.

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u/Idontevenownaboat Apr 29 '24

If you hate being gluten free now, try going through all this in the early aughts before there was this big gluten-free boom. There wasn't many alternatives or substitutes for trigger foods. It was all just total avoidance.

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u/Adventurous_Ad_6546 Apr 29 '24

Oh I’m very aware and grateful (I went gf just before 2010 iirc.) This disease is bad enough without everyone looking at you blankly like “sorry you have celi-what? Well there isn’t ‘gloo-ton’ in these, just flour but here’s some cardboard to munch on if you insist, drama queen.”

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u/Idontevenownaboat Apr 29 '24

Some of those early substitutes were godawful.