Picky eater with food allergies is told shes childish and needs to get over this

A relationship drama involving food allergies and a woman’s need to be choosy about what she eats has driven plenty of social media input, with over 5,000 reactions and some 2,000 comments to date.Describing herself as 24 years old and the mother of an 8-year-old, the woman said she became pregnant as a teenager and hasn’t “exactly dated” much since her child was born.“My daughter has a condition called ARFID (avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder),” she wrote.“It means she has a very restricted diet, and it is very much connected to her ASD (autism spectrum disorder).

I don’t force her to eat certain things that are her ‘unsafe foods.'”Ever since the girl’s diagnosis, the mother said she’s become “sure I might have it, too, but I cook for us both and am self-sufficient, so it doesn’t bother me day to day enough to think about it.”Then, “about a month ago,” the woman wrote, “I went on a date … We went out to dinner, and it was amazing.He was so open to meeting my daughter in the future and being a family man.” She added, “I only do serious relationships, so yes, this is stuff that was discussed on the first date, LOL.”She said the “second date” with the man occurred just recently.

“I went over to his place [to watch] a movie.He then made dinner.”Unfortunately, she said, “it looked amazing, [but] I felt awful telling him I actually couldn’t eat it.”She continued, “Usually, if something is an unsafe food for me (such as melted cheese, vinegar), I’ll still choke it down to be polite, and just vomit and cry later.

But he had put my one ‘hard no’ in there.Mayo.

I hate it.”Yet “more importantly,” she wrote, “I’m actually allergic to eggs.Pretty severely.”She said the man knew this, “as I told him on the first date.

He was cool with this on the date.” But when “he gave me the food [at his place], I apologized that I couldn’t eat it.”The man then referenced how they need...