“My point is that this peanut allergy BS is attention-seeking behavior.”
I suspected as much, but I couldn’t tell for sure.
Based on your great insight, I’ll have to reevaluate my son’s condition. It could very well be that, when peanut butter merely touched his lips for the first time when he was 1 year old, and his face immediately broke out in about 50 large hives within 5 minutes, and he had trouble breathing, and he was rushed to the emergency room ... well, darn, maybe he was simply trying to get attention! Thanks for enlightening me. I’ll be more suspicious next time.
50 years ago I got a rash on my elbow, and the doctor, apparently wanting the easy way out, said I might be allergic to any number of things, one of which was peanuts.
After a week, the rash went away and never returned.
My mother never thought about demanding that the school ban peanuts, chocolate, cheese and everything else the doctor suggested might be the problem.