The Life of a Person With "Coeliac Disease and Milk Allergies"

I do not eat gluten or diary products. Not in some insane attempt to loose weight. I’m sorry if that offends you, but I just find the change insane if there is nothing wrong with you besides a wish to loose weight. I eat the way I do, because my body told me to. My quality of life has just improved and simple things, that I before was “just the way they are”, changed because of my diet-change.
However, my change of diet has caused some problems around me, especially in situations where someone doesn’t know me very well, so I honestly just wanted to clear some air on two small matters. Maybe, if you have a friend that is in the same situation, these two things might help you, help her or him.
 
First: Now, it would honestly be a whole lot easier for me to say that I am a vegan that eat meat. It seems to me that people just don’t understand the difference between not eating diary products because the diary makes me sick and not eating diary products because the lactose makes me ill. People, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE. When I say I don’t eat diary products – it is because I don’t eat them. Don’t just assume that I then eat lactose free products, because at the end of the day I still have to spend an hour or two in the bathroom – and not to just wash my face and freshen up. In rare situations I eat them, because there wasn’t anything else on the table or because I was too good of a person to brake it to someone else, that what they have made for me, I still can’t eat. The fact that someone makes the effort just makes me so happy that I’d rather pick the time in the bathroom over correcting someone trying to make me dinner.

Second: It is OK to tell me that I have to bring my own food because making me dinner for your party is relatively difficult. I understand! Trust me. The same way it is rumored that you see your life before you die, I saw all the food that was banned for lifetime for me, when I found out that this might be a problem for me. It took me a LOOOONG time to come to terms with it and learn all the things I could eat from all the things I can’t. So trust me when I say, I UNDERSTAND. Just say it in advance and maybe also what you have planned to make for dinner, so that I can match the dinner as much as possible. Please do not expect that I will be able to figure it out a day in advance, because I can't. I'm not superwoman. I'm just generally busy!

Generally, it is not because I don’t understand. What I am simply trying to say is that it can pay of to be specific! If you are in doubt leave it out – or call a friend.