A very sad tale: Gluten Free Edition

Yesterday at Seven Peaks Waterpark I had THE MOST AWKWARD THING happen to me!

When getting my bag checked I had an interesting conversation that went something like this

Lady: "Ma'm who is with you today?"

Me: I point and say "just my friend"

Lady: "What!  You've got no kids with you or nothing??"

Me: "Umm no, why?"

Lady: "Well you've got a lot of food packed for just you"

Me: "Well yeah, I guess (looking at my juice, peach, and applesauce)"

Lady: (SMASHES HER FINGER INTO MY PEACH) " Well This is way too much for you, you'll have to take all of this outside of the park or just order something here to eat"

Me: (Timidly) "I have a special diet"

(Ok, after my diagnosis and my immediate life changing diet that happened so suddenly, I have a real fear of hunger.  Maybe even starvation.  I can't explain it.  Also, all I had for lunch yesterday was an apple so all my snacks made perfect sense to me.)

Lady: (wipes her hands as she tries to clean off the peach juice, she looks absolutely mortified at the sight of her sticky latex glove and gives no apology for destroying my perfectly good peach) "Well, go on, take your food out of here!"

Me: "Ok"

Lady: (Before she lets me go, she continues to destroy what is left of my ego and proceeds to embarrass me further by showing the contents of my bag to the male employee next to her!  Tampons and all!)  Why?  I do not know!

The moral of this story, (yes it is true), goes to show how some, not most, but some people treat those with special and unique circumstances.  Sadly, sometimes even disabilities.  As you read this, PLEASE :)  carefully be aware of those around you and their feelings.  Some things may seem strange to you (like me packing a lot of food) but there is almost always a reason behind the strangeness.  Yesterday, all I could do was think to myself in my head " He he, I'm going to blog about you."

Because sometimes, that is my only defense when people don't understand how I feel.

And my blog is my confident voice that I am still developing.