Earlier this year, we were talking on #ActuallyAutistic about people not respecting food allergies.
It’s on my mind because my 12yo niece’s best friend’s organs are being harvested tonight for donors.
She had a severe nut allergy, and on July 4th, someone, assuring her there were no nuts in it, gave her something made with peanut butter. She went into anaphylactic shock, then cardiac arrest, and was declared brain dead that night.
Her family is having a ceremony at the hospital tonight, as her friends and classmates say goodbye. Everyone is devastated. My niece has been friends with her since preschool.

—@n69n