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<blockquote data-quote="Element137" data-source="post: 1502115" data-attributes="member: 328310"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I find the best approach is to smile, be polite, and forgive people for their ignorance - Shamefully, I was as bad before diagnosis, despite the fact that my mom and brother both were T2. We care because we have to, we get educated to survive, I forgive people for the fact they don't need to worry about it - a lot of the ignorance stems from the exceptional job big food industry does misleading people as to what's healthy. At work, I get faced with this scenario every week, in a meeting, biscuits appear, the same person each week will apologise for eating biscuits in front of me and ask if I would prefer for them to be removed, in one respect its nice they stop and consider, but I keep explaining that I am not about to jump over the table and gorge on the biscuits-and I really don't want people feeling they cant eat stuff in front of me- I really couldn't care less what other people eat - I also get asked on a regular basis if I have 'eaten OK' when I have politely asked what they mean - ''you know, at the right time ?'' - again - well intended- so I take no offence - try and see the funny side is my view, and then come here and rant amongst the folk that <em>really</em> understand <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Element137, post: 1502115, member: 328310"] [FONT=Arial]I find the best approach is to smile, be polite, and forgive people for their ignorance - Shamefully, I was as bad before diagnosis, despite the fact that my mom and brother both were T2. We care because we have to, we get educated to survive, I forgive people for the fact they don't need to worry about it - a lot of the ignorance stems from the exceptional job big food industry does misleading people as to what's healthy. At work, I get faced with this scenario every week, in a meeting, biscuits appear, the same person each week will apologise for eating biscuits in front of me and ask if I would prefer for them to be removed, in one respect its nice they stop and consider, but I keep explaining that I am not about to jump over the table and gorge on the biscuits-and I really don't want people feeling they cant eat stuff in front of me- I really couldn't care less what other people eat - I also get asked on a regular basis if I have 'eaten OK' when I have politely asked what they mean - ''you know, at the right time ?'' - again - well intended- so I take no offence - try and see the funny side is my view, and then come here and rant amongst the folk that [I]really[/I] understand :)[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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