To be laughing at this?

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My ds12 has just started a new school and has his first science lesson today. We were catching up on his day and he said they had to do an experiment. The experiment was to heat a peanut up to a certain temp and record when it burnt etc. But due to school allergy advice they aren't allowed to use a peanut.

So he used a Wotsit instead!!
Now I am def not laughing regarding allergy advice obviously but what things do kids accept as normal now that didn't occur to us /happen when we went to school?

"I am 42 and looking back I realise that I never really drank any water? Also at school we were not alowed to drink in class at all - just at lunch time."

I didn't realise that children were allowed to drink water in class now tempester!

"Oh fuck off. It's not about being 'PC', it's about not being a dick."

The other poster gets flamed for her choice of work, but it's OK for you to tell her to fuck off and call her a dick? Hypocrite.

I'm 46 and went to school in 70s and 80s. I had undiagnosed ceoliac's (gluten intolerance) as a child. Just didn't know about it as a child but I used to get told by Drs my stomach pain was all sorts of things including been rushed to hospital for appendicitis (which I didn't have). I think in part some of these things weren't well known back then. To be honest though I'm kind of glad as a gluten free diet would be tricky for a child ie missing out at parties etc.

Gwenhyfar, happyflappy hardly had a flaming! I just pointed out that calling a person, 'a downs person' is insulting, it's not really about being pc, even if happyflappy would like to think that.

It is perfectly logical to think there were children with ASD, ADHD etc, who went undiagnosed. There are plenty of posters on mumsnet who only had a diagnosis of ASD in adulthood.

I grew up in the 70's/80's I don't remember anyone having allergies to nuts or food. I went to a big primary school, (in greater London) with 64 children in each year. I can remember a boy who had asthma and eczema.
In comparison my children go to the local primary school in a small village (no where near London) there are 100 children in the school (reception to year 6) we have 3 children with nut allergies and several with dairy or wheat allergies. Lots have inhalers. I think obviously the knowledge now leads to more people being diagnosed. And I suppose any with severe allergies would have died back then. But I still think they must be a reason why allergies are on the rise.
I was told when pregnant not to eat nuts or use nut oils. But I did as I had a craving for peanut butter (I don't like it usually) my children don't have any allergies or asthma. My OH has asthma but mainly due to all the dust he sucks up being a farmer. He's never had an asthma attack as such just gets a bad chest once a year. This has only started recently.

She wasn't flamed, or anything close. The words she used were disablist and when called out on it she didn't apologise and made out that the other PP was being ridiculous.

Calling someone a dick isn't disablist, anyone can be one. Evidently.

Obviously I'm not a decent person Olivia

Obviously

My children were all born by c section. I ate peanuts when pregnant and mine are all allergy free. I often think I'm gluten intolerant though. I've asked for a test but the gp said no.

Okay great. I'm out, I'd rather be all the things you called me than disablist.

Doesn't autocorrect usually pick out words we use frequently? Just a thought.

A wotsit? What about children that are allergic to dairy?! My son has cmpa, has had pretty much since birth. No food allergies in the genes, vaginal birth, breast fed, brought up with a dog in a distinctly non-sterile environment, not weaned early.... I don't know why he's allergic, possibly it's the antibiotics I had during and after his birth, possibly it's the parasite theory. Nobody really knows, but it does piss me off when people imply that it's your fault, or that you're making it up.

I started school in 1996, I remember every classroom had pink and grey posters with a list of who had serious allergies. There was one in the kitchen too.

In terms of special needs we had one child with some form of epilepsy, a couple who had behavioural issues (one who's in prison, one who commited suicide), my sister who has autism, me with dyspraxia and a girl with cerebral palsy. That was a village school with around 110 pupils.

Majority of severely disabled children here still go to a 'special school' as the rural primaries/massive secondaries aren't able to cater for them. My sister's experience of 'education' unfortunately proved that :(

I believe that autocorrect picks out the word in its lexicon that is nearest to the mistype. It certainly can't pick out a "frequently used" word that I never use.

But nice to know that you are trying to think. You will find that it comes with practise.

You self-righteous, up-your-own-arse, look-at-me-I'm-so-liberal tw**@t.

Whoa Nelly! That was quite a turn around from, 'pardon me, I'm not up on pc nomclenature'!!

Bet Gwenhwyfar is wishing she'd waited 5 minutes before posting to defend Happy's honour...

I said I was out, I don't want to derail the thread any more with insults.

There's loads of useful stuff on here about allergies etc. that I never knew before, so I'm sure it'll help others keep their kids and others safe too.

When the CMPA adverts were on telly recently my mum cried, said no one ever believed her until I ruptured my stomach lining through vomiting continually. I'm still known as the exorcist today , today I can drink milk occasionally but until age 12 or so if I so much as had a spoon of ice cream I would be vomiting for hours on end. Can remember a friend having an ice cream cake at her 5th birthday party in a lovely hotel and being curled up under the table with cramps, it was horrible.

No, stitch, I still stand by it.
Not everybody gets lessons in this month's correct PC term.
There was a thread where someone used the term 'person with autism' and an autistic person replied that they wanted to be called 'an autist'. It's a minefield.

"It is perfectly logical to think there were children with ASD, ADHD etc, who went undiagnosed. There are plenty of posters on mumsnet who only had a diagnosis of ASD in adulthood."

It's just as logical to assume that these conditions won't be understood in the same way in 20 years' time and you can't do a retrospective armchair diagnosis of someone from your childhood.

Oh come off it, the term that got Happy deleted hasn't been acceptable for about 3 decades! You'd have to live under a rock to not know that was offensive.

what is a disabilist? Is it the same as a person who politely questions the possible over diagnosis of conditions?