[MayflowerMadam]

Don’t even let me start on my niece who is gluten free. If she has to be, or wants to be, that’s fine. But she has been advertising it, loudly, for two decades. When she enters another person’s kitchen, chaos ensues. In restaurants, she interrogates waiters and cooks.

Go on whatever diet weird-ass diet you want to, or need to, but just STFU about it. Please.

[verum ago]

Don’t even let me start on my niece who is gluten free. If she has to be, or wants to be, that’s fine.

In my experience, the ones who won't shut about about being gluten free are the ones who don't have to be.

I have a cousin with Celiac disease, and she's quite discreet about it. Just quietly lets people know, including wait staff. She knows it's her burden to bear, and doesn't want to bother others with it.

I also have a friend's wife who claims to be gluten sensitive. On more than one occasion, people have deliberately served her gluten-containing dishes without her knowledge, and wouldn't you know it: if she doesn't know it contains gluten, she magically doesn't have a reaction to it...Strange, that.

[verum ago]

Followup / just to be clear: the first time someone served her something containing gluten was truly an accident, but given her complete non-reaction (she was staying at that person’s house, so they had complete observation of her) it turned into a contest to see how much gluten she could be served without faking / imagining symptoms...