Raising children is difficult and it is impossible to know what will be best for them in a given situation, but kids often blame parents for every mistake.

What would you do if your parents had you follow a doctor recommended diet your whole life, but it caused you stomach issues, and now they won’t respect your new way of eating?

That is the situation the young woman in this story is in, so she yelled at her parents saying that they didn’t take her allergy seriously.

Check it out.

AITA for embarrassing my parents in public over an allergy?

I (19F) have been allergic to dairy since I was a baby.

My doctor and parents had a whole schedule for the first half of my life to get me acclimated to dairy.

It went from me throwing up every night as a baby to the point where I could eat a pretty unrestricted diet and have no real symptoms other than stomach pain when I was in middle school.

At least she figured it out.

This sounds kind of stupid but it took me until a couple of months ago to realize that the stomach pain is actually a symptom and not a thing I just need to deal with.

I was on a school trip and asked if I could have the dairy-free meals (because I knew my stomach would feel icky from motion sickness and traveling) and I actually ended up feeling great.

Ever since coming back to university I’ve basically gone dairy-free and my digestion has been great.

However, because I now have lost all my tolerance for dairy, even very little makes me nearly as sick as when I was a really young child.

That is a little harsh.

I’ve told my parents this and they basically said “Do whatever you want at school but we didn’t spend nearly two decades getting you used to dairy just to cut it out now, that’s a lot of time wasted.”

I had to go home recently for a family event that my parents hosted and we had a big family meal with a lot of extended relatives where nearly everything had dairy.

I tried scraping sauce and cheese off of stuff but I ingested some anyway clearly because I felt gross and spent a lot of time in the bathroom.

At one point my mother got annoyed at me for leaving the table so much (I was leaving a lot) and said kind of angrily, “Why are you being so rude at this event?”

What? It sounds like they took the allergy very seriously throughout her life.

This annoyed me because I didn’t feel I was being rude, I was sick.

So I said to her “Why don’t you take my allergy seriously? You’re the reason I’ve been eating stuff that makes me sick for all my life.”

The issue is that I think that was kind of harsh of me.

My parents do believe I have an allergy, they just also believe they cured it with the diet plan my doctor had me on.

It is never easy to know what is best for a child.

And they’ve told me that they only pursued it because my doctor said it could increase my quality of life to not have an allergy.

Which, to be fair, when I was on this plan I was able to digest more without getting sick, my stomach just hurt a lot.

I feel like I may’ve been unnecessarily rude in how I reacted to my mother.

I’m also worried I drew attention to myself that wasn’t needed (a lot of my relatives were asking if I was okay after dinner, which was kind of them but really not the focus of the event).

I would say the parents were out of line for what they said, but she was also rude for snapping at them.

Read on to see what the people in the comments have to say about this.

This commenter seems upset at the parents.

This person says the parents should respect her new way of eating.

Here is someone who says that the parents should have stopped that diet long ago.

This person says it is her body and her diet.

Digestive issues can be very difficult.

Parenting is hard, but they didn’t need to be rude.

I guess she didn’t, either, but they weren’t listening.

If you liked this post, you might want to read this story about a teacher who taught the school’s administration a lesson after they made a sick kid take a final exam.