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Celiac disease is hard.

Fat Celiac was born out of the idea that celiac disease is hard enough without all of the misinformation floating around social media.

I was fighting those battles then, and I still am.

Along the way, I’ve written more than 1,000 articles about celiac disease — researching the science, questioning the conventional wisdom, and trying to make sense of what it actually means to live with this disease.

But today, I really just wanted to say thank you.

Because somewhere along the way, Fat Celiac became something more.

It became a place where I could talk honestly about the lived experience of celiac disease — the frustrations, the absurdity, the fear, the isolation, and the trials and tribulations of living with a disease that people still don’t always believe is real and that has somehow become the butt of far too many jokes.

And luckily, you guys decided to come along for the ride.

You like and share posts. You tell your stories. You disagree with me. You make me laugh. And sometimes you leave comments that stop me in my tracks.

When I asked about your biggest fears around celiac disease, one woman said she worried that her child might decide never to have children because she was afraid of passing celiac disease along to them.

I still think about that comment.

Because underneath all of the label reading, restaurant questions, cross-contact discussions, bad jokes and gluten-free bread, there are real people trying to figure out how to live with this disease.

I am incredibly grateful that so many of you choose to share that part of your lives here.

I spend a lot of time thinking about what we should talk about next, what people need to know, and what needs to be poked, prodded, examined, researched, and discussed.

Sometimes I forget to stop and simply say thank you.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you for trusting me with your stories.

And thank you for helping turn Fat Celiac into this smart, funny, thoughtful, occasionally argumentative little corner of the internet.

I’m really glad you’re here.