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Newly diagnosed T1's parent here.
Have found this forum very informative at times.
Really hard to take the diagnosis in, and mine is an adult, so feel deeply for all the parents of kids...................
So many questions that there are no answers to out there
- and believe me I 've been looking everywhere.
But one red flag runs thru all the stuff in the media and on-line just now:
why is there a hate campaign against diabetics?
If stuff was put out about e.g. pregnant mums, cancer patients or blind people like is spouted about diabetics
(cost to the NHS, contributory negligence, all their own fault for being greedy pigs, obese etc blah blah)
there would be public ructions against the bigotry. So why do diabetics tolerate being pilloried?
And even so why are T1s included in the hate campaign?
I am appalled that so many medics, nurses, (yes, from personal experience!) and everyday laymen know so little about T1 but think they have the right to pontificate.
Even, sorry to say, the main diabetes charity, which often conflates the two types when preaching in the media. They don't distinguish, and fail to mention that
T1s are much fewer that T2s, have zero control over getting their basic condition and are not to blame.
It adds insult to injury when people get lairy and say stuff such as its their own fault for getting fat - T1s I know of are more like stick insects.
T1s everywhere: stand up for yourselves and put an end to the ignorant brigade's hate campaign.
Not in any way to diss T2s - full respect and tolerance due; but this has to be said.
Sorry for ranting but I had to get that off my chest. Fully agree this might be substituting for my inability to alter the diagnosis but I really have found that
the public/media/online attitude to diabetes is out of order. and needs sorted.
Have found this forum very informative at times.
Really hard to take the diagnosis in, and mine is an adult, so feel deeply for all the parents of kids...................
So many questions that there are no answers to out there
- and believe me I 've been looking everywhere.
But one red flag runs thru all the stuff in the media and on-line just now:
why is there a hate campaign against diabetics?
If stuff was put out about e.g. pregnant mums, cancer patients or blind people like is spouted about diabetics
(cost to the NHS, contributory negligence, all their own fault for being greedy pigs, obese etc blah blah)
there would be public ructions against the bigotry. So why do diabetics tolerate being pilloried?
And even so why are T1s included in the hate campaign?
I am appalled that so many medics, nurses, (yes, from personal experience!) and everyday laymen know so little about T1 but think they have the right to pontificate.
Even, sorry to say, the main diabetes charity, which often conflates the two types when preaching in the media. They don't distinguish, and fail to mention that
T1s are much fewer that T2s, have zero control over getting their basic condition and are not to blame.
It adds insult to injury when people get lairy and say stuff such as its their own fault for getting fat - T1s I know of are more like stick insects.
T1s everywhere: stand up for yourselves and put an end to the ignorant brigade's hate campaign.
Not in any way to diss T2s - full respect and tolerance due; but this has to be said.
Sorry for ranting but I had to get that off my chest. Fully agree this might be substituting for my inability to alter the diagnosis but I really have found that
the public/media/online attitude to diabetes is out of order. and needs sorted.