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- Type of diabetes
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It's probably down to attitude, it may not seem a bright future, but the future is bright if you take the right steps. You only have to Google something like "celebrities with diabetes" to see how many very well known actors/actresses, sportsmen etc have diabetes. I'd tend to be looking at it in a positive way and be thinking that this isn't going to beat me and I'm starting a bucket list now. I knew I should never have read "The Art of positive thinking" by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. Maybe your friend should get hold of a copy?
Again it's down to different attitudes and as much as I would hate stereotyping any nationality the attitude your friend shows is very similar to the attitude that I saw in those US based forums all those years ago. As much as it may affect anybody in your circle, you're not going to hide the fact for ever, so why wait, just doesn't add up. There again, that's just me, you asked a question, a rhetorical question perhaps, I gave an opinion, the answer is simple, you say "I have diabetes", so no worries.
You're absolutely right! But, you know how it is. Think back to when you were diagnosed. Before you had time to adjust. How did you feel? How did your family react, at first? Were they all jumping for joy? Or, did it make them worry or sad? Sooner or later you have to face it head on and it's really no big thing, when you've adjusted. But in the very beginning, those first few moments when you hear those words, "You have diabetes," how does it feel? "Oh goodie, I have diabetes! I can't wait to tell my family!" Or... "Oh ****, I have diabetes. How am I going to tell my family without upsetting them?" Just saying, is all!