Perfume can kill
In fatshionista, a community devoted to fat-positive fashion,

rosewelsh makes a post (which was accidentally okayed by a mod) asking people to be careful with perfume and other scents because of those like her that are "deathly allergic" to scent.

Reactions are mixed - some people agree with her, some people think that she's overreacting, and quite a few question what it has to do with fat fashion. It quickly devolves into a discussion about whether or not multiple chemical sensitivity really exists, whether or not the community is a "safe space", and whether or not the responders are bitches.

There are also comments comparing perfume to second hand smoke and contrasting the community reaction to her post to one that an openly gay person would receive if they dared reveal themselves.

It ends(?) with a flounce.

Bonus points for grammar ~~nazis~~nitpickers who oppress the learning disabled.

ETA: Bahleeted! My thanks to athy and julian_black for the save.

ETAA: Modhammer falls.

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Re: There's no good side in this. I like wanks like that.

altoidsaddict
2008-03-28 03:07 pm UTC (link)

Pineapple and mango are pretty singular allergies; as long as I read ingredients, I'm mostly okay. I try to avoid fancy seafood restaurants since I've had bad experiences with waiters not taking it seriously and just "picking it off." Which doesn't work because the juice is worse than the flesh, though once I gave in because mango is my favorite fruit and just sat there letting my mouth swell up because that little bit of mango flavor was so nice. And I'm never going to Hawaii, which is okay because I don't like the beach anyway.

Milk's in everything, which would suck. You can still have milk-free chocolate though, right?

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Re: There's no good side in this. I like wanks like that.

soupspooks
2008-03-28 05:57 pm UTC (link)

You know, I didn't know they made milk free chocolate. I'll have to see. I do know that high quality, high cocoa percentage dark chocolate is not as much of a problem, since there's a minimum of milk in that.

The level of my allergic reaction isn't as sever as yours, generally. It's more on the level of getting hives from dust allergies (which I also have 8D; ) : It agravates my asthma and fucks up my immune system. It's not as big a problem now that I'm older and my lungs are big enough to compensate and my general health is better, but I spent a lot of time being very sick when I was a kid because of it, until they figured out what was wrong with me (Halloween sucked). These days, I'm just careful to make sure what I do intake is limited, and if I'm sick, I'm viciously strict. And I stay rediculously far away from anything involving goat milk, since I react even worse to that stuff.

So, yeah. I had an uneasy truce with my allergies for a few years. But recently, as I said, I'm starting to react to the smell of milk chocolate. Nothing too serious right now, thankfully, but I'm not sure exactly what I should do if it starts getting worse. I suppose go visit a doctor for proper testing again. . ? Probably a good idea, since my familly also has a hereditary allergy to lobster lurking in there.

I'm always pissed when people don't take allergies seriously, though, or try and correct people who have them. Never mind some of us have been hospitalized or died from it. We're just ~overacting~. I do have fond memories of a tiny Pizza Hut that went out of their way to have one person, and only one person, make my pizza, on a clean surface, after having washed their hands, to do their best to minimize the cheese contamination. And I have a friend who's viciously allergic to stawberries and chocolate, and an icecremem parlour opened up a brand new bucket of vanilla just for him and seperatly washed a spoon so he could have his icecream without fear. So, there are really nice sorts out there, too.

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Re: There's no good side in this. I like wanks like that.

altoidsaddict
2008-03-28 07:02 pm UTC (link)

Yup! Look for anything marked as vegan. I had some vegan truffles once that were better than any other chocolate has a right to be - I think they may have been from Trader Joes? Someone brought them to a party.

Dagobah also has a lot of vegan chocolate products - everything I've tasted from them is heaven. Larabars are also vegan. I especially like their Chocolate Coconut flavor.

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