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thebluerosewitch: ohdebt: ohdebt: witch-apologist: andvaka: witch-apologist: hundondestiny: bulletproof-cupids: closet-keys: thefandomdropout: This is a really weird comment in that it simultaneously tries to promote vaccination while still being really ableist in its implication that maintaining an accessible space where kids won’t have allergic reactions or asthma attacks or other frightening symptoms is somehow a ridiculous and frivolous suggestion that they’re humoring other parents with. Antivaxers are usually violently ableist, but you’re really not helping to dismantle the cultural structures that create the societal symptom of antivax movements if you also subscribe to ableist notions of what we owe each other and who has the right to exist within public spaces Listen mate ya? But like I like pbjs and maybe they should put the majority of the peanut free kids in their own classroom bc when I has in school it was like all down the hall were peanut free signs bc there was ONE kid in all those rooms with a peanut allergy. Put all the peanut kids in one room and everyone else gets to eat their peanut butter in peace. If they’re all in the same grade it shouldnt matter? did you really just suggest segregating classes This is so cringy But real talk @closet-keys kids dont have allergic reactions to sitting by a pbj sandwhich. Food allergy accessible spaces should be about teaching children to be mindful of food allergies and to not feed allergens to allergic children. Banning certain foods from schools only allows for classism and ableism. There are some autistic children that can only eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches because it is the only food that doesn’t cause them sensory issues. Some families can only afford foods like peanut butter and eggs and dairy. You cant pretend to be against ableism whole supporting anti-autistic policies. Ok but some people are so severely allergic to, for example, peanuts, that they can get allergic reactions without having to even eat them fucks wrong with y'all The only way that kids gonna have an allergic reaction is if someone feeds them their food or slings peanut flower everywhere. Seems worth starving autistic children and poor children over, yeah? I had a coworker at the daycare I worked at who had to be hospitalized because she was preparing a child’s lunch, which was brought from home, and contained a peanut butter sandwich. All she had to do was smell it, and it set off an allergy attack that SENT HER TO THE HOSPITAL. And our daycare is, in fact, supposed to be a peanut-free environment. That one parent disregarded a safety regulation, and as a result, could have potentially killed one of my coworkers. These safety regulations are JUST AS IMPORTANT to a child’s safety, and are definitely on par with “your child must be vaccinated before enrolling in this school”. In fact, it’s even on the same sheet in our handbooks. Anyways, respecting allergies is not a frivolous request on a parent or school’s part. In fact, it’s necessary for the safety and well-being of a child, or even adult for that matter. Required vaccination is not a frivolous request either. Okay, adding onto this: I AM AUTISTIC. I had samefoods that involved peanut butter. But the fact is, there are peanut-free alternatives to peanut butter that taste the same and have the same texture, and aren’t any more expensive than a jar of skippy. I certainly couldn’t recognize the difference, so I didn’t have to forego any meals because I couldn’t eat my samefood anymore. It should also be known that I’m deathly allergic to DEET, a common ingredient in most bug repellents like OFF. If I even catch a smell of it, it sets my allergies off. I also don’t have the money for an EpiPen. And because DEET was not banned at my school until I was well into high school (no more recess in high school, so it did me no good really), I frequently had to forego outside activities during the warmer seasons because the teachers would spray the children down with the stuff. It was fucking miserable. Bottom line: An allergen can KILL a child, even without making physical contact. Making a minor change to a samefood to respect a person’s allergies will NOT kill a child, and more often than not, will also not put any major discomfort on the child. I’m a preschool teacher with a servere peanut allergy that has landed me in hospital multiple times despite the fact that I don’t eat any foods that even say they contain traces of peanuts (under doctors advice) because my allergy is so bad that if I touch something that has a trace if peanut on it I will react; because like germs those traces will linger and when I next eat or brush my hand against my mouth I’ll pass those peanut particles onto myself and I won’t know until my throat starts closing. Now like I said I work in a preschool and one day a little boy did bring in peanut butter, luckily I was already off ill so any risk was minimilised (I’m the only peanut allergy at my work) and he was given an alternative instead of that sandwich, but this little boy shown that he’s so understanding about why he couldn’t have that sandwich because he’s since said that even though he likes peanut butter he knows he can’t have it at preschool and is happy to have his biscuit spread instead. This is a 4 year old boy who understands that he can’t have peanut butter at preschool because it would make me very poorly and is happy to suggest his own alternative. Besides I don’t want to ever have to use my epi-pen in front of one of these children, or to have to see them see me going into anaphylaxis so really a ban on peanuts in schools isn’t really a bad thing. As for vaccines that should be common knowledge that stopping children from getting dangerous illnesses is in everyone’s benefit, especially the children’s. The most disturbing line of this entire thread, to me:“I also don’t have the money for an EpiPen. ”I teach middle school, and really don’t stress terribly about allergies because if a kid messes up, the nurse’s office is like 50 feet away and she always has an Epi-Pen available. The fact that big pharma has made Epi-Pens so expensive that families can’t afford to have one that stays on their child all the time is disgusting. -- source link