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Chronic Illness 1w
Having really severe allergies is such a fucking riot because what do you mean I’ve been puking all day with a headache and not stop congestion because the winds blowing outside
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Anonymous 1w

My boss made my team clean the kitchen at work and I got a rash from contact allergies. My team was horrified

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Anonymous 5d

Same. My neighbor decided to burn their leaves and the smoke got into my house. I got a sinus headache with congestion and my body decided that I also needed to vomit

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Anonymous 5d

I wish there was an easy way to distinguish between allergies that make people a little red eyed or itchy nosed and allergies that make people on the brink of death

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Anonymous 1w

OMG IVE FOUND ANOTHER

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

I have an overactive immune system and my body is constantly mildly attacking itself cos I’m allergic to everything 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

I feel that

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5d

Why? Like what for?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5d

So that people stop minimizing severe deathly allergies?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5d

“Mild allergies” “moderate allergies” “severe allergies” and “deadly allergies” are all easy enough but honestly we shouldn’t minimize ANY allergies because any could turn anaphylactic/deadly at any point. I have severe allergies and it never once bothered me that people didn’t know the severity of my allergy as long as they respected it

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5d

Okay? Just because you have never been bothered by it doesn’t me I’m not, I said I wish this not that you wish this, I’m allowed to want ways to make labeling my health easier and more compatible to me

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5d

Mild allergies as a term specifically also minimizes people’s symptoms as you just pointed out because even milder allergies in large exposure can be deadly but the difference is I felt like it would be convenient to have more popular terminology for different variations of allergies

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5d

Because there is a major difference between “I’m allergic but I can tolerate a little bit” and “I’m allergic and a little bit will kill me” and a lot of people tend to assume that everyone is the first one, so it would be convenient to have a commonly used term that more people knew to differentiate between them.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5d

Do people not say “deathly or severely allergic” anymore? Where I am people say it all the time. Maybe I would just do anything to not expose anyone to their allergen no matter if they can tolerate a little or not but if someone tells me they’re allergic I just… don’t expose them to that thing. I don’t have to know where on the “allergy hierarchy” they are

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5d

You thinking that the rest of the world doesn’t need something because it isn’t relevant to you is so fucking snotty and ima just block

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