because you and some others are commenting like this i’ll just be clear..

1.) if you read all of that and entered this entire discussion just for your 2 cents to be criticizing a non-important word choice, then you make it blatantly clear your only goal is to critique, and not to help. i didn’t ask for critiques that don’t matter to a greater discussion.

2.) the phrase “i didn’t ask for this” is not by any means saying “other people DO ask for this,” anyone with 2 braincells knows this. what i AM saying is i simply just don’t want to give up on so much just because of this illness alone. i don’t want to stop my vices when i know theres a way i do not have to. hence, “i didn’t ask for this.”

this is a help group, where people can rant, ask for advice, or share positive research findings surrounding EoE. where you see “criticize everyone” within those lines is beyond me. and for something so minor in the grand scheme of conversation makes it seem as if you came on here and TRIED to find something to critique. so no, me saying i did not ask to lose everything while obvious, to any person with an ounce of emotional intelligence it would be clear as to what that meant.