[LanceH]

The joke is that there is a group of people who are fashionably allergic to various things. Remember 15 years ago when suddenly everyone was celiac? I'm all for cutting junk carbs out of the diet, but this was something people were just "discovering" for themselves. It always seems to be some sort of health-nut crowd which is often far more vocal than those actually suffering.

[stephen_g]

I never heard people self-diagnosing as coeliac, that would be ridiculous - diagnosis for that requires both a positive blood test for the antibodies and then a gastroscopy/biopsy. The 'trendy' crowd tended to be self-professed as "gluten intolerant" or "gluten sensitive".

[jibe]

Given the rarity of celiac disease, the amount of shelf space dedicated to gluten free products suggest a lot of self diagnosis.

[malnourish]

Well, I'm grateful for that. As is my wife, who is Celiac.

And some gluten free things are pretty good (I'll generally take a gf brownie, cornbread, or carrot cake over the alternative).

But since when is accessibility a bad thing? Are people really troubled by there being options?

[stackedinserter]

Same with that everybody is suddenly neurodivergent now.