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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the_anticarb" data-source="post: 567703" data-attributes="member: 16982"><p>For employment purposes, you may meet the definition of disability under the Equality Act (which replaced the Disability Discrimination Act), as this considers how your illness would affect you  if you weren't medicated. So a T1 on insulin would definitely be disabled (probably dead) whereas a diet only controlled T2 may not. I'm on insulin and have always considered myself disabled for the purposes of disability discrimination, gives me extra protection so no downside really. I haven't had to use it yet - was treated pretty poorly by my former employer when pregnant and having debilitating hypos, but they sorted it out once I had raised it to the relevant level of management, I suppose because it was also pregnancy related that really upped the ante.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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