How do food allergies get classified? Do they even need to be classified? Should they be classified as an illness? She isn't sick in the traditional definition. Under law life threatening food allergies are a disability. But is she disabled? No. She can do whatever everyone else can do (besides eating certain foods). Should food allergies be classified as a disease? That doesn't sit well with me either.
It's strange not being able to put a label on your child's condition. Maybe that's it. Maybe the word condition covers it.
How do you feel about labels in general? I know that parents of children with disabilities do not like labels. What about parents of children with food allergies? Just curious.
ReplyDeleteAs a mom and former teacher I'm not a fan of labels. She is a child that has a life threatening condition. However I don't want that to define her. She's so much more than that.
ReplyDeleteI don't want that to define my kid and even though he has 5 life threatening FA he works hard to define himself. With my older learning disabled/ADHD/sensory seeking/epileptic/language disorder kid i would not want his label to define him I just wish we had an easy catch all to call him. Having all these diagnosis are important to get him the help he needs BUT of course I don't want this to define him but without a real name to his issues he is labeled "badly parented" or "moral failure" which is worse than medical diagnosis.
DeleteOh that's awful! People/schools are unreal
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