On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:10:30 +1300, Miche wrote:

> In article
> >,
> " > wrote:
>
>> How come when I was growing up, I was born in 1965, you never heard of
>> a single kid who was allergic to peanuts, no one was lactose
>> intolerant, and no one was allergic to gluten, yet alone know what
>> gluten was unless you were a baker?
>
> People were allergic to gluten. They were the ones who were "sickly",
> the kids who "failed to thrive", the people who died early from weird
> cancers.
>
> Fortunately we know better now.
>
> Miche

there's that, and there's also that society now makes greater
accommodations to those who are out of the ordinary. formerly it was
'tough shit for you.'

your pal,
blake