My daughter was born with life-threatening food allergies.
Really, she did this just so she could bother me. She wanted grocery shopping to me a nightmare. She hoped that I would have a nervous breakdown every time I tried to cook a safe dinner. She is just one of those kids who does everything in her power to be annoying. And with food allergies, she's definitely winning!
No?
A little selfish?
A lot wrong?
Food allergies is a medical diagnosis of a life threatening condition. No one can control it. No one can cure it. No one can even treat it.
You get to live your entire life in total fear of your allergens as you carefully avoid them so that you don't die.
But clearly my daughter just does all this to make her parents crazy.
At least that's what Healthline thinks in their article.
Food allergies are just something that kids do to slowly kill their parents on the inside. It's just a huge inconvenience and a total pain to have to deal with. And it's all your child's fault!
Why is it socially acceptable to make fun of food allergies?
What if the article were slightly different and mentioned other health issues?
For example, "Your child has cancer just to bother you."
"Your child was born with that medical condition just to get attention."
"Your child was born with special needs in order to break the bank with the cost of the special medical equipment that they require."
Don't kids do these things on purpose just to annoy their parents? According to Healthline, having food allergies ranks in annoyance next to your child waking up extra early on weekends and falling asleep in the car right before you reach your destination.
No. It's absolutely inappropriate to equate any type of medical issue to the silly and immature things that kids do like leave a trail of food all over the house or refuse to take a family picture.
It would never be socially acceptable to state that your child's cancer diagnosis or diagnosis of special medical needs was orchestrated by the child just to annoy you. You would never, ever think of blaming the child for their medical problems.
That is utterly heartless.
Any parent with a child who has received a type of medical diagnosis knows that the diagnosis feels very unfair but cannot be blamed on anyone, least of all that child.
When will food allergies be considered a serious diagnosis that is unacceptable as the brunt of jokes?
3 comments:
Lol. They actually removed this slide and replaced it with another comic. I think they heard some backlash from other parents too.
Good article by the way. People never seem to take food allergies seriously.
So very true. Any school my daughter goes to treats her allergy as "just the way I raise my children" and get this they won't accept allergy testing or doctor's orders from an out of state doctor.
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