TIFU by... TOFU!!

First off, I am allergic to a wide range of different foods. I have so many food allergies (and I swear I'm developing new ones) that I struggle to keep track of them all. At first, I was only allergic to peanuts. When I was about 9, I became allergic to soy. Then I became allergic to tree nuts when I was about 11. Fastforward a few years, I became allergic to fish and sesame too. Now I am allergic to most fruit and veg, bean, pulse, and everything I just mentioned. It's quite normal for me to eat something I don't know, have minor mouth tingling, and then I take an antihistamine and it goes away.

I know my food allergies well, but since I am allergic to so many things, there are some things I forget are actually a form of something I'm allergic to. I normally avoid Asian food as if it were asbestos since I am allergic to basically all of it. I generally can't eat any food anyone else has prepared or eat at restaurants either, so I make my own food.

I went to a BBQ the other day, and they were grilling tofu (vegan) burgers. Since I never encounter tofu as I never eat Asian food, I totally fucking forgot tofu is in fact made of soy.

I ended up causing a huge scene as I had to take antihistamines, epinephrine shot, and then be carted off to hospital in an ambulance. I didn't actually have an anaphylactic shock, but I got pretty bad hives and my eyes were running, so they needed to watch me in hospital for 8 hours.

Fuck sake. This happens at least twice a year. And now this group has already excluded me from their next event because they don't want to be responsible for another hospitalization.

TL;DR: Allergic to many things including soy, ate tofu at a BBQ forgetting it was soy, got hospitalized, and I am now excluded from future BBQs.