Honestly, I think it's understanding from the majority. I think people over the years, even my close family—I hate to say that, but it's true—just aren't aware. They get fed up or they've had enough or they don't want to hear me talking about it anymore, so I just let it be. We have wonderful friends and other support systems in place.
I don't think people realize the depth of the complication and complexity, the anxiety, the social phobia, and her fears of something that you and I just take for granted or don't think is such a big issue. For somebody like Amy, it's absolutely enormous. Even for a family meal, just the other day she even said to me she's fine eating her fruit and vegetables in front of my husband and me, but for instance she can't even have an omelette in front of us because she doesn't know how to. I honestly think she's lived in such a bad way for the past six or seven years especially, that for her to relearn normal social skills is absolutely enormous.