The Giant Elf in The Room
First off, let me preface this meme by saying I have some amazingly, incredibly sweet, and genuinely thoughtful friends. This isn't directed toward any individual friends, but it's directed toward social scenarios with people who don't know or understand what I have wrong with me. So, I'm just making this very clear: this isn't about individual friendships or the people who know that I have MCAS. It's the way I FEEL when I'm in a crowd of "peers" in social situations where people know of me, but not about me (for example: kid birthday parties, school functions, etc). While no one is making me feel this way, it's how I perceive the way that they may be looking at me and this is why. They're sitting there eating anything they want and I'm not. I sip on my home-brought hot beverage because water, yes; water, can trigger a flare (read a label on a water bottle and all of the preservatives are why). They stare at my empty place setti