00:00The craziest things happen when you're gluten-free.
00:02I would rather die than never eat gluten again.
00:05If I had to go gluten-free, I would die.
00:10You just kind of get sick of it,
00:12because it wasn't funny then, it's not funny now.
00:16And there's a lot of people who are like,
00:17I don't really believe in it.
00:18And there's a lot of people who have, you know,
00:21transformed it because of the fad
00:23into something that is hard to believe.
00:24They don't understand that it is a disease.
00:27What's gluten?
00:28It took me three and a half years to get diagnosed.
00:31About two years.
00:32Fully diagnosed as of about 11 years ago.
00:34Now thinking back about four years to get fully diagnosed.
00:37I had migraines so often in high school,
00:39they thought I had brain cancer.
00:40It almost ruined my whole life.
00:42I wouldn't be in this chair right now.
00:44We suffer from an emotional loss.
00:48I oftentimes feel like a burden.
00:51I would die if I couldn't eat bread.
00:53I would die if I did eat it, so.
00:55That is a little dramatic.
00:57I just want to sit with my family and eat.
01:00It makes me feel really alone.
01:02I lost family members.
01:03A lot of times people say, like,
01:04well, you have a make-believe disease.
01:06If we're the ones with the disease,
01:08we're the ones that should make the joke
01:09and it shouldn't be at our expense.
01:11This crumb has a body count.
01:13This toaster can never be gluten-free again.
01:16I want my beer like my jokes,
01:18clearly labeled and safe for everyone.
01:21He used the words cross-contamination unprompted.
01:24Because on a diet, you can have a cheat day.
01:26But if I have a cheat day,
01:28it turns into a regret moment.
01:30I think the importance of community
01:34is something that you don't know you need or want
01:38until you start searching for it.
01:41It's like as soon as you just get together,
01:43it's like a connection gets put there.
01:45There's an anxiety that just gets lifted off.
01:47It's not just about the food.
01:49It's about everything.
01:50It changes your life.
01:55It changes your life.
