Why the People of India walked out

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24. I have multiple food allergies,

and also need to avoid high cholesterol foods and a few that interfere with a medication. I try to avoid mentioning food limitations when eating awsy from home. Do not want to make hosts feel uncomfortable or obligated to provide safe alternatives. Also do not want my limitations to become a focus of well-meaning but ill-informed remedies and suggestions.

There is nearly always something I can eat. The problem comes when someone comments on my limited selections and rudely targets me as a finicky eater, then pushes me to "just try" something that I know would make me seriously ill.

I do not mention allergies for my own safety sake. I have been the victim of skeptics who think allergies are psychosomatic and slipped an allergic food into a sauce or dip without telling me, to "prove" that allergies are not real. One apologized profusely when I had such a severe reaction that I had to leave. "I thought it wouldn't hurt you if you didn't know about it." Never ate anything around her after that. And learned to avoid mentioning allergies as a reason for avoiding something.