Maybe you should mention to the CM at the dinners you attend what you need in order to accommodate your preferences. I'm sure they would be willing to work with you (perhaps, for example, give you some type of bread or leave off a sauce?) I'm sure there were other people with food issues as well. Did you tell them ahead of time about your celiac? Or had you already determined that the meal was ok?
Yeah, someone with issues like that should be checking and calling ahead to determine if it was ok or not.
I don't really have time to go through all these lists, but looking at the first one it also looks to be a list of things that all people/children experience from time to time.
It had things on it like
"don't like diaper changes"--well, guess what--I would imagine that every child ever born was resistant to a diaper change at one time or another. I certainly have seen it with my friends' kids.
"doesn't like kisses and will wipe them off"--I hate sloppy kisses and will discreetly wipe my mouth/face after getting one.
"is afraid of the dark"--I think most if not all children have been afraid of the dark at one time or another. I know I was.
Sounds like almost every kid I have ever met.
My point is that any human being could point at things on these lists and conclude that they have a sensory disorder---these lists are so broad they include most things that people experience in daily life at one time or another, so I don't think they should be used as a tool to diagnose an illness. And the fact that the originally-posted list is on a foot clinic site in Indonesia just makes it even more suspect.
The lists were way to broad in my opinoin as well. The list should not be used as a means for DX. And how strange that they came up on that site?
LOL--I can remember one time when I went to the emergency room with what I thought was DVT-=-deep vein thrombosis. I had a hot red spot on the back of my calf that was very sore. I had recently had surgery and from doing Internet research was convinced it was DVT. I told the intake nurse all this--and the first words the doctor said to me were "well, I hear we've been searching the Internet looking for a diagnosis." (and he had a southern accent so it was even funnier--he sorta sounded like Mark Twain). Of course, it did fit all the symptoms-=-so after he examined me he took it seriously and they did an ultrasound and luckily was NOT DVT.
DVT is serious, thankfully you were ok.
But it also took me almost a year of tests and seeing different docs to find out that it was a rare auto-immune reaction to the birth control pills I was taking that caused an inflammation of the tissue between the muscle and the skin. Stopping the birth control and taking prednisone for a while cleared it up and it hasn't come back. I probably still wouldn't know except my family doc recommended a dermatologist (of all things) who is sort of like "House" on t.v.--he suspected it was this auto-immune response and sent me to a rheumatologist (I hadn't seen one in years--was just coping with fibro) who diagnosed and treated it.
Point being is that the Internet can be a great tool--but it shouldn't take the place of competent professional diagnosis.
