I found a list of funny celiac disease truisms on the Yahoo group SillyYaks and this website.
Here are some of my favorite ways to know you have celiac disease:
- You’ve disinherited loved ones for putting their knife in your mayo (or almond butter).
- You weep at picnics, parties, receptions and fast food joints.
- Someone complains of IBS, and you tell them to quit eating gluten!
- At least once a day you fake a smile and say, “Sorry, I can’t have that.”
- You eat before you go out to eat.
- You bring your own soy sauce to the sushi restaurant.
- Your grocery bill is bigger than your neighbor’s mortgage.
- You know that grabbing the first serving of something is a medical necessity, not greed.
- You have several bags of “flour” sitting in your freezer so it won’t spoil.
I have a couple to add:
- You discover you need reading glasses when you try to read labels on products.
- You become an expert on gluten.
- You worship your local restaurants when they make you something delicious and gluten-free.
- You get emotional when you see gluten-free pizza at a restaurant.
- Your idea of extreme risk is ordering food off of a menu.
What are yours? 
Never mind IBS — you know that really l-o-n-g list of possible symptoms of celiac? (the one that includes everything from inablility to concentrate, to infertility, to intestinal lymphoma? Underweight OR overweight? Tingling in fingers & toes? Canker sores?) I think I spend my LIFE telling people to quit eating gluten! I’m sure people run the other way, now, when they see me coming….
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You’d rather your house burn down than to get those darn pantry moths again…!
1. You pack your own food for holidays, airplanes, days out.
2. The number of times you eat out decreases dramatically but your food bill increases even more dramatically.
3. You skip at least half the aisles in a supermarket.
You know you have celeac disease when(1) the only new books and magazines you search for have recipes you can cook with or(2) the most frequented blogs are with people that live in celiac-land
Just found your blog and I love this! Sure rings true! I am going to post on my blog for others to read
Thanks for the laugh.
Katie
You know you have Celiac when you have to explain, yet again….”It’s not just wheat/flour I can’t eat.”
-You lose 10 pounds when you go on vacation because you can’t eat anything.
-You can’t quench your thirst for a cold beer on a hot summer night.
-You’ve bought an $8.00 loaf of bread.
-You bring your own snacks to friends’ houses.
-You’ve lost your hunger for pasta because you know what it will do to you in the end.
These are good, Katie. I especially like the one about the beer. –Kathy
Very funny! Check out my own list on my new blog at:
http://glutenfreeoptimist.blogspot.com/