Kids talk about their own feelings about severe Food Allergies...Good piece.
I really love this clip of film and I wish I knew who made it. I love how honest and unemotional the kids are talking about how it feels to grow up with a severe, ananphylactic food allergy. I sure wish more schools would show this more. It's hard enough to grow up, and there's always something that makes you feel like a freak some of the time, but for these kids that thing that makes them feel awkward is something that could kill them. But, damn it, every single day I hear the Disney Channel sitcoms and tweeny films (The family room TV is where my computer is.) and it seems like anytime a character in a kid's show is "neurotic" or annoying -- it has to do with them "having food allergies." I'm SO sick of that crap. Why don't the scriptwriters in Encino or whatever crappy North Hollywood place they live watch this clip. Why don't they figure out that these kids are not fussy or demanding. They're quiet heros. Put that in the sitcoms.