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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you bring up his allergies in settings where he's not going over someone's house and then get offended when someone asks more questions?  Just don't bring it up.   [/quote]

My kid's allergies are environmental, not food, but sometimes they come up.  For example, when my kid was younger and certain outside activities would trigger asthma bad enough to need oral steroids and possibly the ER, and people would invite us to the pumpkin patch or whatever, I'd explain so the conversation didn't end up with them suggesting multiple dates, and trying to talk me into the idea that pumpkin patch is fun, I'd say "He's allergic to the mold in hay, would you want to meet up for swimming at the indoor pool?"  Then people would ask me if I'd tried Benadryl, as if I might not have heard of it.  This is for a kid on 6 daily asthma/allergy meds, who had still had multiple ER visits and hospital stays before he turned 2.

I can imagine that allergies are coming up in natural conversation for OP too.  Maybe someone offered her kid a snack, and she told them he can't share food.  Maybe someone asked if her kid liked a certain food.  Maybe she had a conversation with her kid about why he couldn't take an offered food.  
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