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Kassie

By Kassie
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Kassie Apprentice
Kassie
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school is starting in three weeks, i dont want to go back but i cant wait for soccer. me and my twin are on the school team and i cant wait to go play again (i am goin to be a sophmore), but last year during soccer is when i firt started showing signs of celiac i would keep gettin sick. i had to miss 2 games because i felt was so sick! so then i got this nick name - sickie- my twin had a nick name that rymed -hickie- ( hers was for a totally different reason she burnt herself with a straightener) they used to yell at us go sickie go hickie. now that my sister isint playing i have a feeling i am goin to get picked on lol oh well i'll have to explain everything to my team. has any one else gotten nicknames because of celiac

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ravenwoodglass Mentor
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school is starting in three weeks, i dont want to go back but i cant wait for soccer. me and my twin are on the school team and i cant wait to go play again (i am goin to be a sophmore), but last year during soccer is when i firt started showing signs of celiac i would keep gettin sick. i had to miss 2 games because i felt was so sick! so then i got this nick name - sickie- my twin had a nick name that rymed -hickie- ( hers was for a totally different reason she burnt herself with a straightener) they used to yell at us go sickie go hickie. now that my sister isint playing i have a feeling i am goin to get picked on lol oh well i'll have to explain everything to my team. has any one else gotten nicknames because of celiac

Perhaps 'sickie' will morph into 'sillie' :) I think lots of us dealt with nicknames, unfortunately sometimes they stick. Stick - that was mine. I had a twin also, a boy and oddly enough no one made fun of him. They were to busy picking on me. Try not to let it get to you. At least your a sophmore this year.

schuyler Apprentice
schuyler
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Hey Kassie,

Hopefully your nick name will change, but I know from personal experience that sometimes they can stick for years.

So far, I have not gotten any nick names because of my celiac, but for years I was called Johnny Crash because of my not so impressive version of a Johnny Cash song during a school talent show. I was 10 years old, and I was up there singing my heart out to "Ring of Fire", when all of a sudden I was singing "I fell in..." and CRASH I ran into and knocked over a speaker.

To top it all off, I later found out that my mike was off the entire time :ph34r:

People called me crash or Johnny Crash until I graduated high school :ph34r:

Good luck with soccer.

I played 4 years of varsity soccer in high school, and it's my favorite sport.

samking72 Rookie
samking72
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My boyfriend calls me "gluten-head" it's silly and isn't really suiting seeing as I don't eat gluten, but cute none the less. Another one he made up is "grinch-a-saurus-rex" for my mood swings I got from being a "gluten-head".

Ashley Enthusiast
Ashley
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Well, not me, but my food gets nicknamed. My cousin LOVES my gluten-free cake and calls it 'gluten-cake'. He also loves my gluten-free cookies 'gluten-cookies'. I keep explaining over and over that's not gluten but it never goes through :lol:

-Ash

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