Even people who seem to know what you are talking about may not understand how important your special food requests are to your health. One thing that helped me was to realize that i have been learning about and researching allergies contantly since i was a kid. Others have not. Now with 22 years of experience under my belt it is very easy to understand who do and who doesnot understand these allergies. Stay strong because even your friends will not understand. Explain this to people when you leave places because they don’t understand your allergy, this will make them feel stupid as they are in the industry and should understand. You must go foward in expanding other peoples thoughts as they will never understand, and eating out with never get any easier for us,.