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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Balog on August 30, 2011, 10:53:04 PM
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Seems about right, now that being a victim is somehow an elevated social status.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-real-diseases-that-have-somehow-become-trendy/?wa_user1=5&wa_user2=Weird+World&wa_user3=blog&wa_user4=moreon
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What, no mention of ADD/ADHD? ???
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So not entirely like the 19th century?
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I laughed. I cried. I hurled.
Does that make me bipolar manic depressive with food sensitivities? [popcorn]
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QFT:
Asperger's syndrome is basically a type of autism that's usually not so severe as to prevent a person from functioning independently. It's still a lifelong challenge for people who have it, and their families, but it's also a wonderful opportunity for lazy people with bad social skills to excuse themselves.
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I'm kinda surprised Fibro-Myalgia (sp??) didn't make that list. Lots of people claim to suffer from that. My SWAG is that maybe 10% really do have something wrong with them. The rest want an excuse to not work/socialize/etc, or just want something to be "special" about themselves. We had a neighbor in Mesa, AZ that we called "fibro-myalgia lady" becuase that was literally the first thing about herself that she told you.
FTR, most of my wife's family (maternal side) have Celiacs, and my SIL is bi-polar (and schizophrenic). My sister has accused me of having Aspergers, though never to my face (or maybe I just didn't "get it" ;)). She might be a Ph.D psychologist, but I'd raise the BS flag on that one.
Anyway, I don't mind the "gluten intolerance" as a trendy disease one little bit. It's driven demand for GF foods to such heights that the quality has gone up massivly in the last 10 years, and prices have come down at least a bit. Nowadays I don't mind eating GF most of the time, and in a few limited cases actually prefer it over regular wheat based food. When we first got married you couldn't have made me touch GF anything with a 10' pole.
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My sister dated a guy who had a no-BS, clinically-diagnosed case of bipolar disorder. He had trouble controlling it at times, and it was what eventually ended their relationship. Definitely not something I'd WANT to claim to have.
Same thing with Lyme disease. That one, along with hantavirus, is one of the few diseases that scares the crap out of me (probably because I watched a boatload of those medical documentaries they had on the Discovery Chanel as a young kid, and they replayed the ones about hantavirus and Lyme disease a lot).
I can almost see most of the other ones, but it seems kind of silly to me.
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I'm kinda surprised Fibro-Myalgia (sp??) didn't make that list. Lots of people claim to suffer from that. My SWAG is that maybe 10% really do have something wrong with them. The rest want an excuse to not work/socialize/etc, or just want something to be "special" about themselves. We had a neighbor in Mesa, AZ that we called "fibro-myalgia lady" becuase that was literally the first thing about herself that she told you.
FTR, most of my wife's family (maternal side) have Celiacs, and my SIL is bi-polar (and schizophrenic). My sister has accused me of having Aspergers, though never to my face (or maybe I just didn't "get it" ;)). She might be a Ph.D psychologist, but I'd raise the BS flag on that one.
Anyway, I don't mind the "gluten intolerance" as a trendy disease one little bit. It's driven demand for GF foods to such heights that the quality has gone up massivly in the last 10 years, and prices have come down at least a bit. Nowadays I don't mind eating GF most of the time, and in a few limited cases actually prefer it over regular wheat based food. When we first got married you couldn't have made me touch GF anything with a 10' pole.
You lived next to my Mom?!?!
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Anyway, I don't mind the "gluten intolerance" as a trendy disease one little bit. It's driven demand for GF foods to such heights that the quality has gone up massivly in the last 10 years, and prices have come down at least a bit. Nowadays I don't mind eating GF most of the time, and in a few limited cases actually prefer it over regular wheat based food. When we first got married you couldn't have made me touch GF anything with a 10' pole.
I just bought a 5 gallon bucket of "gluten on the hoof" (hard red winter wheat) from a local wheat farmer I know.
Now I just need to find the time to mill some flour and get some baking done.
I did make a small batch of cream of wheat to give it a quality check, good stuff.
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My MIL had shingles last year. I thought that was a 19th century affliction. Maybe it's coming back in style.
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My MIL had shingles last year. I thought that was a 19th century affliction. Maybe it's coming back in style.
It's from the same bug as chickenpox. Herpes varicella, IIRC. Lots of older folks get shingles. I'd guess its that their immunity to chickenpox waned, or the virus wakes back up and that's how the body reacts to it. Or something.
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You lived next to my Mom?!?!
Or one very similar. Do you have a brother that's probably 20-ish by now with a questionable diagnosis of Aspergers? Yep, they claimed their son had that too. Never interacted with that kid enough to know for sure, but from what I observed I'm skeptical of the diagnosis.
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It's really easy to tell if a fibro sufferer truly has it.
Do they still work, look for work, etc, with "fibro" only being something that they mention hen they happen to be moving a little slower? Might be genuine.
Are they unemployed, collecting disability, and mention fibro every time they're supposed to do something? Then their diagnosis might be faulty...
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My MIL had shingles last year. I thought that was a 19th century affliction. Maybe it's coming back in style.
I had that in High School. Still have some scars. That stuff really sucks.
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Also surprised that this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_hypersensitivity) didn't make the list. Very popular "diagnosis" over here among neo-hippies...
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Same thing with Lyme disease. That one, along with hantavirus, is one of the few diseases that scares the crap out of me (probably because I watched a boatload of those medical documentaries they had on the Discovery Chanel as a young kid, and they replayed the ones about hantavirus and Lyme disease a lot).
Yep, definately nothing to screw around with.
The article was way off on this one. My dad has had it twice (he goes trout fishing every day that the season is open), neither time did he test positive for it, but he had other hard to ignore symptoms- bullseye rash, knee swollen to the size of a canteloupe.
Fibro- IMHO that should have been int he Lymes slot. My sister who's a nurse says that most of the Fibro people she sees are full of BS.
Gluten- I'm entirely sick of hearing about it. My wife's sister is on some sort of anit-gluten kick and is trying to get my wife on board. Its obnoxious, its annoying, and most of it probably comes from advice from the orca show.
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So, I guess that bubonic plague isn't cool anymore?
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"Peanut allergy" was trendy in the late 90's up thru Sept 11, 2001. Mothers diagnosing their kids with it so they'd be "special", or maybe just so the moms would have something to worry about. Then it abruptly disappeared -- except for the few people who really are allergic to peanuts, but they never really caused any trouble (carried some Benadryl and an Epi-Pen and asked people not to feed them peanut butter.)
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peanut allergy is still pretty popular around here
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"Peanut allergy" was trendy in the late 90's up thru Sept 11, 2001. Mothers diagnosing their kids with it so they'd be "special", or maybe just so the moms would have something to worry about. Then it abruptly disappeared -- except for the few people who really are allergic to peanuts, but they never really caused any trouble (carried some Benadryl and an Epi-Pen and asked people not to feed them peanut butter.)
I find that one to be extremely annoying and its still pretty common. My daughter wasn't allowed to have peanut butter sandwiches in her lunch because one of the kids in her class might have had a peanut allergy. I have a niece whose parents 'diagnosed' her with peanut allergy, they finally got her tested and found out that she wasn't.
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I find that one to be extremely annoying and its still pretty common. My daughter wasn't allowed to have peanut butter sandwiches in her lunch because one of the kids in her class might have had a peanut allergy. I have a niece whose parents 'diagnosed' her with peanut allergy, they finally got her tested and found out that she wasn't.
Maybe it's because I'm not a parent but I fail to see how some other kid's allergy means your kid can't have PB. The other kid knows he's allergic right? He's been told not to eat peanuts right? What is he a suicidal, kleptomanical, allergic kid that creeps around during recess looking through other's lunch boxes for the forbidden nut?
One of my classmates in elementary school was diabetic. She knew that eating candy might kill her, so she didn't eat candy. It was pretty simple. On Valentines day, her mother dropped off some sugar-free candy so she could eat with the rest of us. How is this so hard?
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Maybe it's because I'm not a parent but I fail to see how some other kid's allergy means your kid can't have PB.
Because it allows a 30-something woman to exert control over you, and that makes her feel better about herself.
The other kid knows he's allergic right? He's been told not to eat peanuts right? What is he a suicidal, kleptomanical, allergic kid that creeps around during recess looking through other's lunch boxes for the forbidden nut?
One of the boys my daughter went to school with was supposedly allergic to peanuts. He stole Nutter Butters from the other kids lunches. (he wasn't the one that was sick, it was his mother who was sick in the head)
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My mother was/is big on the chemical sensitivity thing. Had a great job with the VA (retained her former rank) and after a year, got out on medical. Reason? Allergic to toner cartridges in printers/copiers. Yep. How f'ed up is that? Also claims allergies to formaldahyde (sp), car exhaust, all soaps and detergents, most foods, most medications, household cleaners, and pretty much anything else you can conceive. Oh, and let's not forget me. Allergic to me as well and has been since I was a kid. It used to amuse me to give her a rash.
I have zero patience with those who fabricate or exagerate illnesses or health issues of any kind. If you have a health issue, get treatment or shut the hell up about it.
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Or one very similar. Do you have a brother that's probably 20-ish by now with a questionable diagnosis of Aspergers? Yep, they claimed their son had that too. Never interacted with that kid enough to know for sure, but from what I observed I'm skeptical of the diagnosis.
Ah, no I'm the youngest at 28 and I didn't get diagnosed with the crazies until the Marines.
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Maybe it's because I'm not a parent but I fail to see how some other kid's allergy means your kid can't have PB. The other kid knows he's allergic right? He's been told not to eat peanuts right? What is he a suicidal, kleptomanical, allergic kid that creeps around during recess looking through other's lunch boxes for the forbidden nut?
The fear is the kid eating the peanutbutter sandwich will get some on their shirt/hands/face/hair/etc and inadvertently expose the special child to peanuts. ;/
When I was a kid, peanut allergies were non-existant, I still think they still are in reality.
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The fear is the kid eating the peanutbutter sandwich will get some on their shirt/hands/face/hair/etc and inadvertently expose the special child to peanuts. ;/
When I was a kid, peanut allergies were non-existant, I still think they still are in reality.
They may be uncommon, but they are generally among the most severe of the food allergies along with shellfish. There are people who legitmately get extremely sick from any contact with peanuts. Granted it's over hyped and diagnosed, but it does happen.
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My mother was/is big on the chemical sensitivity thing. Had a great job with the VA (retained her former rank) and after a year, got out on medical. Reason? Allergic to toner cartridges in printers/copiers. Yep. How f'ed up is that? Also claims allergies to formaldahyde (sp), car exhaust, all soaps and detergents, most foods, most medications, household cleaners, and pretty much anything else you can conceive. Oh, and let's not forget me. Allergic to me as well and has been since I was a kid. It used to amuse me to give her a rash.
I have zero patience with those who fabricate or exagerate illnesses or health issues of any kind. If you have a health issue, get treatment or shut the hell up about it.
I know someone who genuinely has that problem, and I had similar issues back about 20 years ago when my asthma was out of control.
The "treatment" is to avoid contact with the offending substances.
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Oh, and let's not forget me. Allergic to me as well and has been since I was a kid. It used to amuse me to give her a rash.
Must have made for a fun time in the delivery room
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What, no mention of ADD/ADHD? ???
Because docters have mostly stopped handing out Adderall like candy.
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My mother was/is big on the chemical sensitivity thing. Had a great job with the VA (retained her former rank) and after a year, got out on medical. Reason? Allergic to toner cartridges in printers/copiers. Yep. How f'ed up is that? Also claims allergies to formaldehyde , car exhaust, all soaps and detergents, most foods, most medications, household cleaners, and pretty much anything else you can conceive. Oh, and let's not forget me. Allergic to me as well and has been since I was a kid. It used to amuse me to give her a rash.
I have zero patience with those who fabricate or exaggerate illnesses or health issues of any kind. If you have a health issue, get treatment or shut the hell up about it.
Isn't that like being allergic to arsenic?
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Isn't that like being allergic to arsenic?
Maybe it's more like being allergic to being pickled.
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HA!
The bits on asperger's and sociopathy made me think of APS.
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Isn't that like being allergic to arsenic?
But "allergic" it levels that would not bother most of us.
One of my daughters, for instance - is extremely allergic to chlorine, to the point where she cannot go to an indoor swimming pool or even be in a room where bleach has been used for cleaning. She is extremely capable and driven (she trains search dogs for one thing) but she struggles with health issues that pull her down.
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Seems about right, now that being a victim is somehow an elevated social status.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-real-diseases-that-have-somehow-become-trendy/?wa_user1=5&wa_user2=Weird+World&wa_user3=blog&wa_user4=moreon
Chemical sensitivity. Ay-yup.
La Esposa has had "food allergies" ever since she put herself on some odd diet to attempt to self treat arthritis. Someone told her "better not eat too much X or you'll get allergic to it." One thing after another. These all went away in the mid-nineties when she went on her meds that make the voices stay away.
Curious how that worked.
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Chemical sensitivity. Ay-yup.
La Esposa has had "food allergies" ever since she put herself on some odd diet to attempt to self treat arthritis. Someone told her "better not eat too much X or you'll get allergic to it." One thing after another. These all went away in the mid-nineties when she went on her meds that make the voices stay away.
Curious how that worked.
Correlation does not necessarily equal causation, but you still have to wonder, don't you?
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An acquaintance of mine, Matt, doesn't have any arms or legs. So he mostly just lays around.
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An acquaintance of mine, Matt, doesn't have any arms or legs. So he mostly just lays around.
Reminds me of asking the patient if she was sexually active: She said 'No, I pretty much just lie there.'.
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>I didn't get diagnosed with the crazies until the Marines<
Which pretty much guarantees a diagnosis of crazies... :P
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A lot of people misuse the term allergy, as it were.
Get sick to your stomach every time you take a med?
That's an adverse event, not an allergy.
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"Eww, I don't like Lima beans; I'm allergic" ;/
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Reminds me of asking the patient if she was sexually active: She said 'No, I pretty much just lie there.'.
That reminds me of a joke in one of Woody Allen's routines that got him sued by his ex. She'd been raped sometime after their divorce. Before an audience, he said, "knowing my ex-wife, it wasn't a moving violation."
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Bipolar is awful. An on-and-off good friend has it, three guesses why it's an on-and-off friendship. Chick can drive just about anyone completely insane with her delightful combination of being totally blind to reality and being competely self-focused.
Fibromyalgia, my sister has it. I have no doubt that it's legit, for all kinds of reasons. But she is also the only one of four kids who hasn't been treated for mental illness resulting from crappy genes and a seriously messed up childhood. Like emotional pain, psychosomatic pain is real pain. But I suspect she might have less of it if she saw a good shrink.
As for the whole "treat it or shut up" paradigm, my concern is that there aren't many serious health conditions that are really curable. I'm painfully aware that a couple times I've moaned/whined/rambled incessantly about health issues. Doesn't mean they don't exist or that I'm not seeking treatment for them, just means when something is really worrying or bothering me, I am prone to bitching about it, sometimes more than I should.
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So far I've been fairly lucky, all my ailments have been physical and more or less fixable
Blew out my shoulder a couple years ago, tendons aren't suppose to be all frayed out looking
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They fixed it pretty good
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Now my wife on the other hand, some days I think she is just bug *expletive deleted*it crazy.
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And just for the WTF? and Ewww factor
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/08/31/placenta-its-whats-for-dinner/?test=faces (http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/08/31/placenta-its-whats-for-dinner/?test=faces)
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^^^Why I don't eat portobello mushrooms.....
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OOOh
Time for AD's Disease Rant of the DayTM.
Fibromyalgia: Those that truly suffer from it (about 1% of those who claim to suffer from it) I truly feel sorry for. It's all kinds of levels of suck. But about 99% of the time, you claim to have "fiboalgea", you get tossed into the "Drug Seeker" bucket. Had an aunt who self-diagnosed (because her doctor's just "couldn't figure out what was wrong") with fibromyalgia. In reality, she just wanted narcotics, because she was also "allergic" to basically all non-narcotic pain meds. Hell, she's in FL now, I don't need to worry about her anymore.
Peanut Allergies: Have a gal in our dispatch center who claims to have a peanut allergy. The other day, I walked in with a Payday bar or something like that, she freaked out. I ask her what's the deal, she claims she's deathly allergic to peanuts. I apologize, take it back out to the lunch room. Later, the topic comes back up and I ask her if she has ever had to use her Epi-pen.
*blank stare* "What's an Epi-pen?"
Me: "I though you said you were deathly allergic to peanuts?"
"I am!"
"Then why don't you have an Epi-pen? Or even know what it is? You know, the epinephrine auto-injector that you have to use if you're exposed to peanuts, since you're 'Deathly Allergic'."
*blank stare*......
"Tell you what... Why don't you tell me what your reaction is if you're exposed to peanuts?"
"Well, I get this really bad rash if I touch them, and get really nauseous if I eat any..."
*facepalm*
The next day I brought in another Payday bar.... And handed her a small bottle of calamine lotion, "Just in case a random peanut flies off and hits you, wouldn't want to trigger your 'DEATH RASH!' "
Yeah, I got in trouble, but it was worth it.
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"Well, I get this really bad rash if I touch them, and get really nauseous if I eat any..."
Hmm. I get 1/2 off those reactions when exposed to cauliflower/Broccoli. Imust be allergic!
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Bridgy, I think the point here is hypocondria is now fashoniable, which makes a lot of sense in our current society.
People have figured out the claiming "i have a DESEASE!" gets them away with a whole slew of behaviors that would otherwise be unacceptable.
Unfortunatly, this puts the burden on those who actually do have these problems, because in many cases its damn hard to tell the truth (especially the mental ones)
it bugs me. I'm very close with my boss, who has lupus (which is thankfully in remission at the moment due to the fact that through some mircle she got pregnent when NO ONE thought that was possible)
I watch katie stubbornly work even though she is in a lot of pain, because she doesn't want to be an invalid. And it pisses me the hell off when someone else, who doesn't even have a problem whines about not being able to do something.
ad the only time we were ever asked to cater to her desease was when her mom made everyone get flue shots (and louise paid for them) which is entirely fair given how closely we work together and one person has a weakened immune system.
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As for the whole "treat it or shut up" paradigm, my concern is that there aren't many serious health conditions that are really curable. I'm painfully aware that a couple times I've moaned/whined/rambled incessantly about health issues. Doesn't mean they don't exist or that I'm not seeking treatment for them, just means when something is really worrying or bothering me, I am prone to bitching about it, sometimes more than I should.
Bad choice of words on my part. I bitch too when something's bothering me. What really bugs me is the person who lays around and whines but does nothing about it. Or when it's used as an excuse for not leading a productive life.
And this: People have figured out the claiming "i have a DESEASE!" gets them away with a whole slew of behaviors that would otherwise be unacceptable.
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Now my wife on the other hand, some days I think she is just bug *expletive deleted* crazy.
I thought that was just normal for women? :laugh:
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I thought that was just normal for women? :laugh:
this!!!^^^^^ god yes
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People have figured out the claiming "i have a DESEASE!" gets them away with a whole slew of behaviors that would otherwise be unacceptable.
Been there, done that.
If I had to guess, and armchair psycholgize, it's a way of exerting control on the world around them. The social world around them (what remains of it that isn't driven away) revolves around them and their needs and limitations.
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http://blogs.fredericksburg.com/hsfb/2011/09/07/update-on-riverbend-player-who-collapsed-last-weekend/
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the reason schools go apeshit over peanut allergies is that some cases walking into a room contaminated with peanuts causes the one with the allergy to go into shock. from where i'm sitting that means the kids should in in "no-penuts school", not making 500+ kids suffer. same as getting rid of the handicapped classes*. the ones hurt hte most are the kids that needed 'em. mainly because there's no way in hell there going to catch every peanut in a normal school, and the kid is going to end in the ER/die. =|
*something that seemed popular back in the 80's, might have just been the one school. [popcorn]
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I'm 57 years old,
my back, hips, legs, and knees hurt,
and I'm tired all the time.
Is there a trendy name for that ???
:P
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I'm 57 years old,
my back, hips, legs, and knees hurt,
and I'm tired all the time.
Is there a trendy name for that ???
:P
Ah, never mind.
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OFS ;)
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Thanks Sanglant. That's what I was going to say. But hard to overcome all that "respect your elders" stuff...
>:D
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Thanks Sanglant. That's what I was going to say. But hard to overcome all that "respect your elders" stuff...
>:D
That's right, all you young whippersnappers! :P
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Thanks Sanglant. That's what I was going to say. But hard to overcome all that "respect your elders" stuff...
>:D
heh, i don't worry about it. being that i have it already. ;)
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I'm apparently allergic to coffee. So I don't drink it. Have been accidentally poisoned with it, with humorous results. Ah, AD might recognize the term "SLUDGEM". Yea, it sucks. Oddly, smoking helps. Nicotine must do something weird with acetylcholine receptors?
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I'm apparently allergic to coffee. So I don't drink it. Have been accidentally poisoned with it, with humorous results. Ah, AD might recognize the term "SLUDGEM". Yea, it sucks. Oddly, smoking helps. Nicotine must do something weird with acetylcholine receptors?
Well, it activates the nicotinic receptors, which is, for all intents and purposes, one of the receptors that acetylcholine targets.
So yeah, it does.
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I'm apparently allergic to coffee. So I don't drink it. Have been accidentally poisoned with it, with humorous results. Ah, AD might recognize the term "SLUDGEM". Yea, it sucks. Oddly, smoking helps. Nicotine must do something weird with acetylcholine receptors?
Interesting
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Because it allows a 30-something woman to exert control over you, and that makes her feel better about herself.One of the boys my daughter went to school with was supposedly allergic to peanuts. He stole Nutter Butters from the other kids lunches. (he wasn't the one that was sick, it was his mother who was sick in the head)
A parent of a boy in my daughter's class wouldn't let him eat anything that wasn't made by her. If it was another student's turn to bring class snack, he couldn't eat it, always brought his own. Met the mom once during parent/teacher conferences....had to feel sorry for the kiddo. Mom was, well, overprotective seems a little too gentle of a word to describe her.
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the reason schools go ape*expletive deleted* over peanut allergies is that some cases walking into a room contaminated with peanuts causes the one with the allergy to go into shock. from where i'm sitting that means the kids should in in "no-penuts school", not making 500+ kids suffer.
How's the sitting in bizarro-land?
Cry freedom and let slip the peanut butter of doom!
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Breathing the peanut protein - Reaction usually occurs in the nose, and eyes. (http://www.disabled-world.com/health/intolerance-allergies/peanut-allergy.php)
never said it was common, which is why schools shouldn't be trying to remove peanuts. :facepalm:
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And what's the alternative where there is a kid with a known, severe peanut allergy? Aside from segregating him/her in some 'special school'.
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exactly, the only way to keep them away from peanuts. why should the rest of the normal school kids have to deal with trying to eliminate something as common as peanuts? not like there going to let the kid carry his on epi, and if a teacher uses one on 'em that's going to be a lawsuit. [tinfoil]
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Is it extremely difficult not to bring peanuts to school? No peanut butter sandwiches, no Snickers, no Reese's Pieces. Sounds really complicated and very infringing on PB+J-based rights. Best bus the 'abnormal' kid half-way across the state.
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do you really believe that's the list off foods that contain peanuts? :facepalm: (http://kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/nutrition/nut_allergy.html)
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And with awareness of the potentially, um, fatal consequences, you really think canteen suppliers aren't geared up for it? Or that other parents really feel that put out by it? Especially when everything that is made in a factory that has ever had one single nut in it is labeled as such?
A peanut-free school seems relatively easy to maintain, aside from the odd accidental slip-up, thoughtlessness and of course utter lack of consideration for others. So actually not that easy, but still the right thing to do.
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oh and, it wouldn't require busing, i know someone that can't go to the school so they're sending a teacher home to teach her. it wouldn't be any harder to make the school safe for her then the peanut allergy suffers.
as to how hard it is, very. it means no cooking with peanuts in anything you're going to cook food to send to school even for you're own kid/s. no peanuts in anything going to be used to carry food/anything else to school. no eating peanuts in the cloths you're wearing to school. etc., and remember we're not talking about someone that gets a rash, and that's the end of it.
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Nothing like turning an allergy into a crippling segregation. "Oh, your body over reacts to certain chemicals? Better not leave the house then freak, you'll inconvenience all the normals."
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A peanut-free school seems relatively easy to maintain
ROFL
At the VERY least it means zero outside food. No snacks, no birthday party treats, no kids allowed to bring their lunch. All snacks and lunches must be provided by the school and in a strictly-controlled way.
Of course, this assumes that we really are talking about the VERY VERY rare case that a child actually does have a dangerous peanut allergy. The VAST majority of people who claim (or whose parents claim) they have a dangerous peanut allergy do not.
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Nothing like turning an allergy into a crippling segregation. "Oh, your body over reacts to certain chemicals? Better not leave the house then freak, you'll inconvenience all the normals."
where did that come from? my goddaughter gets out plenty, just can't go to school. =| and no it's not peanuts.