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Diabetes UK tackling stigma campaign

LittleGreyCat

LittleGreyCat

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I have been told that Diabetes UK (not this organisation) recently ran a media campaign over tackling the stigma associated with Diabetes.

I haven't seen it, so I wondered if anyone else had?
 
LittleGreyCat said:
I have been told that Diabetes UK (not this organisation) recently ran a media campaign over tackling the stigma associated with Diabetes.

I haven't seen it, so I wondered if anyone else had?
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Hi,

From memory there was a “strike out stigma” drive back in November 25?
 
I found a thread at the end of January 2026 on the Facebook page, which I thought(!) I was following.
The responses seem to be T1s hating on T2s, which kind of proves their point.
 
Jaylee said:
Hi,

From memory there was a “strike out stigma” drive back in November 25?
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Do you follow Diabetes UK on Facebook? [Just being nosey.]
If not, can you remember where you saw it?
Just trying to work out if the communications strategy is working.
 
LittleGreyCat said:
Do you follow Diabetes UK on Facebook? [Just being nosey.]
If not, can you remember where you saw it?
Just trying to work out if the communications strategy is working.
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Hi again,

Not on FB, no..
Though it could have been a “like” notification from someone else.
Or a share from somewhere.?
I seem to remember it had something to do with “diabetes day.”
 
LittleGreyCat said:
I found a thread at the end of January 2026 on the Facebook page, which I thought(!) I was following.
The responses seem to be T1s hating on T2s, which kind of proves their point.
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Following pages or people on Facebook is completely hit and miss on what Facebook shows you in my experience.

I'm in various diabetes groups, including T1 groups, and the nasty posts by T1s on T2 are often unbelievably rude and ignorant. Please trust we're not all like that!
 
Antje77 said:
Following pages or people on Facebook is completely hit and miss on what Facebook shows you in my experience.

I'm in various diabetes groups, including T1 groups, and the nasty posts by T1s on T2 are often unbelievably rude and ignorant. Please trust we're not all like that!
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It used to be a thing on here 10+ years back but not recently.
I know most T1s are not like that. :cool:
I think there used to be a lot of resentment from T1s because T2s got more attention because there were so many more of them.
I suspect it may be yoof in the early years of adulthood which are always very hard.
Transitioning from childhood care to young adult care can be difficult.
 
I really don’t get that mentality. It’s like people with Rheumatoid arthritis talking ill of those with osteoarthritis, because one is autoimmune and the other is wear and tear and or excess weight . So one is inevitable and the other lifestyle. Both born out of ignorance . T2 undoubtedly has a genetic component, the body looses its insulin sensitivity for reasons currently not specified and or the pancreas is unable to meet the demands required of it. It seems to me some people get confused because the prescription for T2 is centred on lifestyle changes. Lifestyle changes is recommended for many diseases, not just diabetes , cancers, bowel diseases ,GERD to name a few, but people have latched on to this simple ‘it’s all the fault of T2s mentality. Weight gain may well be as a result of the emergence of insulin resistance / a pancreas not able to produce enough insulin, not diet or lack of exercise. If this was the case then the vast majority of the population would have T2 diabetes, but they don’t, not even close . As always these attitudes are perpetuated by the nonsense and disinformation rampant on social media.
 
There is a pervasive idea - even from some health professionals - that we T 2s have caused our illness ourselves because we ' let ourselves get fat' when weight loss after we sort out our blood glucose is irrefutable evidence that the T2 causes the weight gain, the weight gain doesn't cause the T 2
 
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