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Condescending attitude

shellysexbomb

shellysexbomb

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Location
Pontefract
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
Yep. I am seeing it. People look down on you when you tell them and start spouting all the 'Its your own fault'. :banghead:
Makes me so upset, brings out an undesirable evil streak in me too, that almost wishes it on them!!! :mad: Anyone else encountering such prejudice?
 
i am in the very fortunate position of it actually being my fault, so attitudes like this just makes me "yup!"
 
I blame my parents. Or maybe it actually is my own fault in choosing the wrong set of parents, both diabetic?
 
Mmm - people wouldn't say it's your fault to a paraplegic whose problems were due to an accident while playing rugby, but they chose to participate in a dangerous sport knowing the risks.

Yes, sometimes things happen which are our fault to some extent, but it's rarely that simple. My obesity is my fault, therefore so is my diabetes. I'm neither stupid, nor lazy, but I do have deep seated issues around food. I know some of the whys. It's much harder to make myself deal with them.

Still, for many, many people, they have done nothing to give themselves diabetes, so there's no fault at all any more than it's my fault I'm short-sighted.
 
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Why did you bring it into the country and pass it to everyone else @ElyDave

@Andy12345 may be you ate stupid because your body told you to do it as your cells couldn't get enough energy and there you go into that vicious cycle.
 
Andrew Colvin said:
Why did you bring it into the country and pass it to everyone else @ElyDave

@Andy12345 may be you ate stupid because your body told you to do it as your cells couldn't get enough energy and there you go into that vicious cycle.
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hehe but under those rules we are never guilty of anything, even murderers could claim to be genetic predisposed to killing, but ill take it! lol
 
yep there is definitely something wired wrongly in their brains. Unfortunately society doesnt seem to want to find reasons and solve/resolve just to take revenge

Now I had better duck for I feel the flames coming my way
 
Totto said:
I blame my parents. Or maybe it actually is my own fault in choosing the wrong set of parents, both diabetic?
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I can't even blame both parents: mine's mitochondrial, so father's in the clear. And if I choose to, I can indulge in a whole lot of maternal guilt for risking passing it on to my children ... ;)

Kate
 
kesun said:
I can't even blame both parents: mine's mitochondrial, so father's in the clear. And if I choose to, I can indulge in a whole lot of maternal guilt for risking passing it on to my children ... ;)

Kate
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So it is not your fault! Just genes!

As is what I tell people who say You! Diabetic? You don't look it!

Well, they have noticed I have lost a lot of weight in the last years.

It is all about genes. Or inheritance anyway.
 
Charles Robin said:
You probably have the thrifty genotype!
http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/issues/Issue_331/ThriftyGeneotype.pdf
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Has who?

Can you be of a thrifty genotype when you are of perfectly normal weight?

I have done some reading and so far as I can see, type 2 diabetes is mainly about genes. A lot of them. Not about obesity. Type 2 can, on the other hand in some instances cause obesity. This doesn't mean obesity is the cause of diabetes, rather the other way around.
 
@Totto I think that is still only part of the story as the stored fat seems to make the condition worse. So it is definitely started by genes which be gets the fat which increases insulin resistance which your genes have caused and you then crave more energy because of the high insulin levels which be gets fat and around it goes until you cant process any more BG as you are topped up. Remove some fuel from the fuel tank and you can fill it up some more - once you know this we can use our brains to manage our genes. Unfortunately for some the high BG damages our insulin production and so we can't always recover. Still an over simplification but it is all the fault of my ancestors that lived during the ice age.
 
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