No, I don’t think that’s it. When you were in elementary or High School did everyone have to avoid anything with peanuts in it? We’re a bunch of kids carrying around epipens?
When I was in school, epipens were unheard of (they may even not yet have been invented) and any kid with a "problem" kept it on the "down low."
Today, they are all encouraged to blast their condition(s) to the world and demand that the other 99.9% kowtow to their "needs."
In my day, any kid with a special problem would have been required to eat his lunch in a stuffy little separate side-room, with Sister Mary sternly watching over him, and the whole issue would have been hushed up, as was proper.
When I was in HS, I was placed in "Special P.E." class, with a bunch of haemophiliacs, suspected gay-boys, and other assorted genetic misfits and screwballs. (Don't ask me why they thought I belonged there, but I made some life-long friends in that class!) No one made a big deal about it. Today, it would be spread all across the front page of the school newspaper.
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