Perhaps people with these bizarre allergies all died off as babies or infants in prior generations, but now that medicine has gotten better they live and expect the whole world to drop everything to accomodate them.
"Perhaps people with these bizarre allergies all died off as babies or infants in prior generations..."
There's nothing bizarre at all about food allergies. They've been around for centuries, although it does appear they are more common now. In the case of my situation (celiac sprue), I probably indeed would have died not too many years ago. Heck, I almost died three years ago.
"but now that medicine has gotten better they live and expect the whole world to drop everything to accomodate them."
Maybe some adults are that way but I don't think younger kids expect anything more than to be able to do "normal" stuff as much as possible.
I guess it would be more convenient for people without these problems if the ones with the problems just started dying again.
Most did die earlier of "congestion" or some undiagnosed illness. I had a friend just drop dead from an allergy (don't know what it was), his roommate (college) said he suddenly couldn't breathe, by the time the ambulence got there, he was dead. This was some time back and allergy diagnosis and treatment wasn't as good as now. (Ambulence response wasn't as good either, most likely.)