Let's Make People Aware Of The Truth (A Response To The Rediculous Post By Buzzfeed)

[MegRie]

  I don't know if any of you saw the rediculous post by buzzfeed, but it was enfuriating!  I'm not going to include the link because I refuse to go back to it.  I believe they were puposefully inflamitory in order to drive traffic to their site!  They did, at least recognize Celiac as a real problem, but said that for anyone else who had a gluten intollerance it was all in their head!
  You guys all know how much of  a struggle it is to be gluten free.  All of you understand how exhausting it is to have to defend yourself around every corner, because someone thinks they innately know more than you about what it means to be gluten free.  I'm sure you have all been accused of being unhealthy because you don't eat gluten (what the heck is that even about!!!????).
  I'm saying all of this, because (sometimes unfortunately) I can't just sit back.  When things bother me this much, I have to do something.  I know there is already a celiac awareness month (or week?) but it is in May.  

[Adalaide]

Buzzfeed has done a BUNCH of articles, most of them actually pretty hilarious. I suspect though that if you aren't a diagnosed celiac that you're upset about the one that starts off as "blah blah celiac is serious but...." and goes on to talk about the study that was done on gluten intolerance and fodmaps. FYI, this isn't a buzzfeed thing, this is an actual thing that was all over the internet and this site this past spring. Some people are pretty upset about it, and some people, instead of having a knee jerk reaction are considering the possibility that there is some science there since very little is understood at all about NCGS. So, while I won't tell you not to do your thing, please don't just get all over one website being the bad guy for having an article that tried to be informative about what was at the time a really big deal. For me? I have no interest in spending a week, or even a day in using social media to talk about how awful and hard my life is because I'm gluten free. It's not. It's awesome, every day, and I focus on that.