I do see the truth in elements of this rant. I'm type 1 and have no experience of type 2, so I only say this as a response to my own experience. However, there is a probably largely unjust view in the public/press that 'diabetes' is caused by sitting on your **** and eating Burger King 3 meals a day.
I do not want to demonise any type 2, but as a young type 1, diagnosed at 11, being constantly told that I could have prevented my condition if I'd eaten less pizza or whatever as a child pisses me right off and was 100% the cause of several incidents of essentially burnout because I constantly felt blamed.
I have often said that I wish the two conditions were called something different, so that when the news etc talks about 'diabetes' that people don't instantly assume I've done something to cause a condition I hate living with.
I do feel for type 2 patients, because I get the impression there is a lot of misinformation, but it is not the same as type 1. I don't tell anyone about my diabetes any more, because I cannot cope with the comments. Nobody understands what type 1 is. It isn't the fault of any type 2, but of the news and press.
I am sure type 2 have their own problems too and this isn't a type 1 vs 2 issue, it is both types vs the general wrong reports in the papers.
I'm a needle phobe, I need 2 people to hold me down to have bloods taken, I do understand the comments like 'I couldn't do that to myself' wrt to taking insulin. I couldn't for several years, my mother had to inject me but if I didn't I would die. The difference between that and the 'you should have laid off the pies' is that the needle one is someone who doesn't really understand trying to say you are doing well or trying to empathise with how tough it is, the second one is basically victim blaming.
That's my rant. Don't get me started on health 'professionals' only ever focussing on the negatives, not what positive steps you have managed...
I do not want to demonise any type 2, but as a young type 1, diagnosed at 11, being constantly told that I could have prevented my condition if I'd eaten less pizza or whatever as a child pisses me right off and was 100% the cause of several incidents of essentially burnout because I constantly felt blamed.
I have often said that I wish the two conditions were called something different, so that when the news etc talks about 'diabetes' that people don't instantly assume I've done something to cause a condition I hate living with.
I do feel for type 2 patients, because I get the impression there is a lot of misinformation, but it is not the same as type 1. I don't tell anyone about my diabetes any more, because I cannot cope with the comments. Nobody understands what type 1 is. It isn't the fault of any type 2, but of the news and press.
I am sure type 2 have their own problems too and this isn't a type 1 vs 2 issue, it is both types vs the general wrong reports in the papers.
I'm a needle phobe, I need 2 people to hold me down to have bloods taken, I do understand the comments like 'I couldn't do that to myself' wrt to taking insulin. I couldn't for several years, my mother had to inject me but if I didn't I would die. The difference between that and the 'you should have laid off the pies' is that the needle one is someone who doesn't really understand trying to say you are doing well or trying to empathise with how tough it is, the second one is basically victim blaming.
That's my rant. Don't get me started on health 'professionals' only ever focussing on the negatives, not what positive steps you have managed...