The Atlantic is too often a vehicle for propagating the worst nonsensical lifestyle fads of America’s upper middle classhttps://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1039985252268208128 …
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As an actual celiac, bandwagon gluten free dieters are *the best* - they've created demand for good quality gf food (and beer!) that is hugely beneficial to me =]
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I’ve heard the opposite from others: restaurants now don’t take it as seriously and get sloppy about keeping it strict leading to dangerous incidents
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There are absolutely genuine cases. I know bc I have had students with a real psychiatric diagnoses and for whom accommodations are appropriately made. That’s a world away from mild nervousness and dislike of a task coupled with trendy high SES entitlement foot-stomping
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one problem here might be proper psychiatric diagnoses cost a ton... which is part of how this comes to be seen as an upper-middle-class thing in the first place... while many lower class kids with similar problems treated as hopeless basket cases
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I had spectacularly extreme social anxieties in school. I was fortunate enough to have had Toastmasters Int’l volunteer at my school. I was a horrible stammerer. They bashed it out of me. Went into competitive debate & legal teams in HS. Essential skill for success and democracy.
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