oh my goodness you poor thing you don't know what you're missing you just miss out on so much oh my gosh you've never had chocolate you're allergic to everything you're allergic to the world those are just a few of the many things people have said to me throughout my life because of my handicap of not being able to eat everything the average person does i believe and food allergies i believe in allergies not being a disability since the day i came out the womb i've had a variety of allergies basically a whole page if you're wondering in a way they have disabled me from tasting different foods living with these food allergies has allowed me to become enabled and empowered usually going out to be ordering food is not as hard as it may appear it only becomes a pain and people don't respect the fact that i'm different than the average customer and that i need my food to be prepared in a particular way in order for it to be safe one of my favorite places of all time is chipotle a i go there pretty much four times a month or so this one particular day but i went i told the server that i was allergic to dairy and asked them changes gloves take the bread from the bottom et can already tell from the scowl on his face that he was going to give me a hard time and i would have to keep a close eye on him as he went down the line and filled my burrito i told to make sure he didn't touch the dairy area with my burrito his response i know if his life was on the what if the ingested something he couldn't eat so i ignored his attitude and thanked him for service now this is where the tricky part comes that my mom also ordered a burrito and she did include dairy i wasn't watching the guy because i was paying for both burritos but he didn't label either burrito so there was no way to differentiate we decided to stay inside to polling my mom noticed that the burritos were labeled inches jested that i tear off a piece of the breed of that i thought was mine i did exactly that i didn't notice any dairy as i continue enjoying my tasty burrito i realize that there was cheese and sour cream inside of the burrito my throat began closing my lips against welling and i could feel my breathing becomes shallow i hurriedly explained to my mama was occurring and she told me to go to the bathroom and do the epi pen i ran faster than i've ever run before especially some of the don't particularly like running as soon as i enter the bathroom i stabbed myself with the  slowly but surely my thoughts started opening up the swelling decreased and my breathing became normal that wasn't as scary as it seems i've had more allergic reactions than there are days in a year unfortunately but we're not talking about that the issue was that the server did not fully acknowledge and accept that i had an awful lot of food allergies having allergies has helped me realize that everyone is different and then order to fully communicate with each other we must acknowledge and accept these differences if we don't know how the human race go on i believe in accepting all differences and learning to communicate through these differences i believe in accepting food allergy i believe in treating people with food allergies the same way you treat someone without them