to not eat something that makes me ill?

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I could eat bread, cake and food that contains wheat but I would then have painful, foul-smelling wind, bloating and be shitting 8 times a day. So I don't.

So why the actual fuck should I have to explain my bowel habits in detail all the bloody time to people who think it is acceptable to roll their eyes, sigh and generally think I am doing it for an affectation.

Do people really think I enjoy not eating normal food? Or having to look at ingredients? Or not being able to eat out or choose what I want from a menu? Are people so unutterably rude, stupid and thoughless?

AIBU to present the next person who does this with a tupperwear containing what would happen to me if I have normal food?

"Are people so unutterably rude, stupid and thoughtless"

Yes they are.

i don't really understand why you're so angry? You disn't have to explain at all, certainly not beyond "I have an intolerance".

Do you feel people think you're jumping on the 'allergy/intolerant' bandwagon as opposed to understanding you truly can't eat it? Ignore them, you know you can't, end of story.

why do you have to explain and who to? Just eat what you like....surely?

Just ignore, I don't understand why people are so interested in what others are doing!? I might have to revert back to gluten free cos I tried once and I felt good but it was so hard! Especially with two kids. My stomach is not happy again tho, the bloating is the worst, I'm literally in agony by afternoon, so you have my sympathies.
Next time someone asks just say 'Cos if I eat bread etc I'll shit myself' and walk away ha!

I am angry because I appear to have to explain to the same people week after week, every time I eat out, every time someone sees something GF in my kitchen, every bloody tedious time I say 'no thank you' to cake. ALL THE TIME.

And then every tine someone will tut, or ask why, or roll their stupid, ignorant eyes and make it obvious they don't believe me.

Fucking idiots. That is why.

you have to practice your 'ignore' face hooked and just do not respond.

I do mostly. Just sometimes I want to shit in a box and shout 'IS THIS ENOUGH FOR YOU?????'

Tempting though it may be to give a full Tupperware container to the next nobber who says something, I suggest not, just in case you don't have the lid on properly and it spills in your handbag.

I have a spectacular reaction to cooked salmon. Not smoked salmon, just cooked farmed salmon - don't know why, but it comes out both ends after about 30 minutes. Guaranteed. I was at lunch with my boss some years ago, that he hosted at work and he publicly gave me such a hard time for not eating the salmon. It really pissed me off, made me very self conscious and determined never ever to comment on someone else's food habits again.

It's not good manners at all. No one should be made to feel uncomfortable at a dining table. Next time it happens to you just say "thank you RudePerson, now, moving on, who's having a starter?" and ignore the fuck out of them.

And it's not fucking fair. I want to eat a fucking baguette and cake.

You appear to work with some particularly dense people, which is very unfortunate!

I'd just cut them off with "we have been over this before".

Work, friends, family, they are all fucking at it. Bastards.

If it's the same people doing the eye rolling every time then start telling them that you've already told them why, then refuse to discuss it further.

well lots of people say no to baguette and cake hooked, for various reasons. In my case they seem to have a narcoleptic effect, but what I choose to eat is no one's fucking business.
People can be so rude.

Who are these people? Stop inviting them round to look in your kitchen, stop eating out with them and if you can't avoid them just say 'I cannot believe your life is so tragically devoid of anything more interesting to do with your time than whining on endlessly about what I eat.'

You can eat baguettes and cake. You just have to go down a different aisle for them.

I do need good replies. Will store these up.

I choose not to eat wheat too, for health reasons, and get all sorts of raised eyebrows.

I couldn't give a fuck. Honestly I couldn't. You don't have to explain anything.

You can't just pick up a sandwich when out though. And the supermarket ones simply don't taste as nice.

Just eat the cake. Then close all the windows, turn the air con off and hide the air freshener from the toilet

That'll learn them.

I found people would keep going on at me to have a beer, until one day I just said no thanks, it makes me fart. They were more embarrassed than I was, so really just say no thanks it gives me the shits. The more pleasantly you say it, the more effective it is

You've probably tried all these before op but a friend of mine is gluten intolerant and says the Costa wrap and Waitrose/Marks and Spencer sandwiches are nice (if pricey).

Marks and Spencer seem to have expanded the range of GF products massively in the last few months.

YANBU.

I have a lactose intolerance made worse by milk and butter in particular. I can eat yoghurt and cheese (but not too much). I've never been a fan of ice cream/cream on puddings for example, but now I avoid avoid avoid because it's a case of eat it, wait ten minutes, go cold and faint then have to run fast to the nearest toilet. Needless to say I decline most dairy now and take my tea and coffee black. I've always taken the latter without milk as that's my preference but now have tea without. No-one can cope with this.

MIL thinks she's being a bad host if she doesn't slap ice cream on my cake. Or cream. I can't get through to her that I'd be having to spend the rest of the afternoon in her toilet.

It doesn't help that SIL also apparently has a lactose intolerance but is able to eat creamy/buttery mash, ice cream, milk in hot drinks etc.