Yes-- in all seriousness, it may be raising
awareness of epinephrine autoinjectors for the general population...
but... um...
it's made OUR lives harder recently. I've also had no less than three people say similar things to US in the past three weeks.
"Why don't you just have {DD} carry an epipen?" (in respose to my assertion that something was not a safe environment for a parental "drop-and-go"
"Doesn't she have epipens?" (when I politely but firmly refused a restaurant meal invite)
"She should learn how to use one of those pen things." (unsolicited, 'helpful' advice from an acquiantance of DH's re: DD needing to 'go to a regular school')
It may be coincidence, but I'd not actually
heard people say such things to me in quite some time. The frequency seems alarmingly high right now, and they generally don't want to hear my additional information, preferring to believe that I'm "ignorant" because they saw something about it on TV, I'd assume. THAT part is definitely new, as always before now, such remarks were more vague and considerably less authoritative in nature.
It's emboldening people who have NO BUSINESS making this kind of decision to decide that my daughter needs nothing more in the way of accommodations-- and that anything we might ask for is unreasonable. Thanks, Mylan.