Food Issues

I can not eat in front of people.

I am a pickey eater with possible celiac disease and a touch of anxiety disorder. Therin lies my problem.

The celiac disease, or whatever it is, gives me a bad reaction to some of the foods I eat. Then I get pickier about what I eat. Then, people feel the need to comment about what/how much/with what/how I'm eating, and I feel embarrassed. Then I choke up. Then I can't eat anything.

So then people see that I'm not eating at all (right that very moment) and think that means that I'm anorexic or something. I'm not, I'm just not able to force myself to eat around them. They are scarey to me. Would a gazelle with a lion chasing it stop for a quick nibble on a tree, even if it was the tastiest tree on the savannah?

I knew a guy once who ate his french fries in order of smallest to largest. No matter what. He diddn't care what or who was around, he just brushed it off. I think I could learn something from him.

I don't need anyone's approval to do what I need to do to survive.

No wonder that gazelle got killed by that lion, he didn't eat anything.