As a vegetarian with some pretty major fruit allergies, and now slowly building up a lactose intolerance, it is pretty terrifying to have “friends” who don’t care. In fact, my own mother isn’t even very careful of what I can’t eat.
I can only have raw apples and apple juice. Anything else that’s apple makes me horribly ill. I had a “friend” in high school who wanted me to try something, I asked her what it was, when she said it was apple, I asked her if anything was done to the apple, and without answering, she shoved it in my mouth, and pretty much forced my mouth shut. I had no other option than to eat this thing. Once I was done, and feeling a little nauseous, I reminded everyone at the table of my allergy. To which the girl panicked and asked what happens when I eat it. When I calmly told her it makes me throw up, she panicked and quickly told me it was just dried apple. Kind of like those apple chips. Thankfully, as there was nothing added to it and it was not cooked or anything to that factor, I was only a little nauseous for the rest of the day.
As for my mother, she constantly is baking with applesauce. She made banana bread one day and I was excited to have a slice. So one of my friends was over and talking to my mother about baking. So, my mother decides to tell my friend, after I’d eaten almost the entire slice I was given, that she baked the bread with applesauce. I quickly spit out what way, and panicked. Then calmed down a little, as fast, so my stomach didn’t register what I had eaten quite yet. After about ten minutes, I was laying on my couch, curled up in a ball, completely sick to my stomach, and swallowing the throw up that was in the back of my throat every few minutes. When my mother saw this, she called me a drama queen and that I would’ve been fine had she not told me she baked with applesauce.
As for my other fruit allergy, I’m highly allergic to pineapple as well. It makes my throat close up and it upsets my stomach pretty badly. I was walking down the hall one day and talking about these cute new earrings I had gotten that look like pineapples. There were these girls in front of me and the person I was walking with, and I was telling said person this story about how when I was a kid, I didn’t like pineapple, even though I had never had it before. So these girls stop, turn around, and start talking to me about how they were going to bring me pineapple and force feed it to me. I ignored them and continued to talk to my friend about how when I got older, I had pineapple for the first time and I thought it was really good. Until my body started to react to it and I could barely breathe. Of course, those girls were already gone when I said that, so the next time we walked past them, they told me they were going to give me pineapple one of these days, and I had to scowl about being allergic, to which they didn’t believe me. Needless to say, I spent the rest of my senior year avoiding them in slight fear they’d try to give me pineapple.
As for the vegetarian thing, thankfully, my friends only made jokes about feeding me meat. And I had a friend, whom, when the school had what they called “meatball subs” he’d give me the bread because he didn’t like the sauce or the wheat bread. So, he’d watch me peel the little meat chunks out, and slowly eat it. And he’d watch in slight shock that I was able to catch even the slightest piece of meat and be able to either spit it out or pull it off the bread and not consume a single little piece of it. So they’d merely joke about it, even though they noticed that I would sense even the smallest bit, so they knew I would notice any meat.
So please, for the safety of others, don’t just feed someone something without them knowing everything in it. You never know, their reaction could be much more serious than just a dislike. It could be a serious allergy.
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