Living with a food allergy can already be stressful enough without constantly having to defend or explain it to other people.

So, what would you do if those “other people” were your family who repeatedly ignored the seriousness of your allergy? Would you just stay quiet to avoid any drama? Or would you eventually lose your patience because it could seriously hurt you?

In the following story, one teen girl deals with this exact scenario and ends up going off on her family. Here’s how it all happened.

AITA for snapping at my family over them being ignorant over my allergy?

I (16F) have an allergy to tree nuts. I was formerly allergic to peanuts, but recently my allergist cleared me to be able to eat peanuts.

While I am able to eat them, I choose not to because they physically disgust me to eat (I start gagging). My family (except my dad, pretty much) does not understand my aversion to peanuts despite my many attempts to tell them. I am the only one with a food allergy in my family.

Being allergic to nuts pretty much affects everything I eat. I always have to check every single thing I eat to make sure it’s safe. There have been multiple instances where my family members went shopping for baked goods or other desserts and did not check for tree nuts.

One time, she accidentally ate pecans.

During a family friend’s birthday, we had them over for dinner, and my mother (53F) bought some sort of cheesecake with pecan crust.

I have a more severe reaction to pecans, and when I noticed a weird feeling in my mouth (which usually signals I’m having a reaction) I was really confused. My mom is usually pretty good at not buying things that I have a worse reaction to.

NOW, before you come at me saying I should’ve checked the box before eating it, it was already in the trash (yes, I still should’ve probably checked it). My mother had also told me it did not have nuts.

Her brothers always have something to say about her allergy.

After checking the box after eating some, I saw that it contained pecans. When asking my mother about this, she blamed me and started yelling at me.

My brothers are also not very understanding about my situation. My brothers (both 17) are always quite ignorant when my allergy affects some things we buy and eat.

We obviously do have peanut butter and other peanut foods in the house, but I just don’t eat them due to reasons stated prior. They always complain how sometimes I get foods to myself, and always argue that I can still eat foods with peanuts but just choose not to.

Fed up, she snapped.

I constantly have to argue that while yes, I can still eat it, its an issue for me to eat (prior reasons).

I snapped at my family when we had dinner last night over their repetitive actions and feelings regarding my allergy.

I said that they were inconsiderate and ignorant of the fact that my tree nut allergy affects a lot of my life and not just theirs.

Now, they want her to apologize.

I did apologize that my allergy caused them to have to have less nuts like walnuts and the other severe nuts, but I did say that were being rude for constantly complaining and making me feel bad. I left the dining table and went up to my room for the rest of the night.

They said I needed to apologize for my outburst and claimed I was entitled.

I’m honestly so sick of having to argue with them over my allergy. Mind you, my mother has an allergy to a certain medicine.

AITA?

Yikes! Her family sounds pretty inconsiderate.

Let’s check out what the folks over at Reddit think about this whole thing.

This person eats peanut-free for her child.

Here’s someone who would never act like that as a parent.

According to this comment, her parents are responsible for caring.

This teacher would report her mother for child neglect.

This reader thinks she should make her own food.

Her family is terrible! They need to educate themselves and do better, seriously.

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