I WANNA TALK ABOUT SHALLERGIES! Ok so my best friend in preschool through middle school was VERY allergic to peanuts like airborn too, so at lunch he had to sit at the peanut free table right?
Completely separate and no one with a home lunch could even sit with him because it might have peanuts, only school lunch kids because all the school lunches were peanut free. There were years I was the ONLY person who sat with him (I switched from home lunch to school lunch because I wanted to sit with him and not let him be by himself) The table was also like in a corner away from every other table super isolated.
These kids didn’t chose to not sit with him because they were being mean but because the rest of their friends had home lunch or they had a home lunch themselves. So very long winded way of saying Shane would definitely experience this type of isolation on top of the isolation he already felt for being neurodivergent and Asian.
I’m just imagining itty bitty tiny Shane sitting all alone at his peanut free table. And I made myself very sad.
Anyways thank you for the Shallergies head cannon I’m obsessed
GOD just broke my own heart thinking about this in connection to the fact that sometimes kids grow out of allergies.
like maybe shane in elementary school at least had one other kid in his grade who was allergic to peanuts who always sat with him.
and then. they grew out of it. and now they get to go sit with other people and eat reese's and pb and j and all of the stuff that shane can't be near.
and now shane both doesn't have a reliable buddy to sit with him anymore AND?? that's not FAIR?? why doesn't HE get to grow out of it??? that's not FAIR.
the idea of shane who grew up with the unconscious habit of always going to sit at an empty table instead of just joining one that already has people at it
the idea in the centaurs of everyone at a table or something for breakfast at an away game at the hotel and someone sits down at a table where shane and ilya and a few others are already sitting and they grabbed peanut butter or something totally on reflex and without thinking
and shane spots it at once and internally *sigh* preparing to keep an eye on what they're touching on the table that's shared or even maybe moving to anoth-
and then?? someone else?? points out the peanut butter?? and there's immediately a playful chorus of everyone banishing that person and their peanut butter?? to another table?? like it's 100% done lighthearted ("take your poison butter and GIT" "you're trying to take out hollzy?? what, you're a fucking double agent for buffalo?? i KNEW it."), but the person just laughs, gives shane a "sorry, dude, forgot" and then?? does take their peanut butter toast?? and goes to a fully different table??
shane who was once a little kid who had to go sit apart from everyone is now a man who gets to stay
