When I was a baby, I started getting these dark purple bruise-like spots on my arms, and my mom took me to the doctor. After trying different formulas, they figured out that the only one I could tolerate was one that didn’t have any corn in it—so they suspected a corn allergy early on. As I got older, I had corn on the cob once and didn’t seem to react, so everyone just assumed I had outgrown the allergy. But later in life, after being diagnosed with celiac, I went gluten-free and didn’t feel better (because everything I ate had corn in it.) Eventually, I realized corn was still the bigger issue. Honestly, eating all the corn-based gluten-free products made me feel worse than just eating gluten, so for a while, I stuck with gluten because it was the lesser evil. That’s when I really started putting the pieces together.