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<blockquote data-quote="zoze_j" data-source="post: 1121294" data-attributes="member: 261782"><p>There's a few people on here failing to see what is offensive about the artcle, and FYI I doubt any of us who <strong>have</strong> taken exception to the article are looking to be offended, that's just ludicrous!</p><p>But d'you know what, I <strong><u>am fed-up</u></strong> and nothing is going to change that! I like many of you am T1. I did NOTHING to end up with this condition, it was just pure sh*te luck & a shoddy immune system. So yeah, I think it's understandable that I get pretty fed-up by ignorance on the condition, and because there has been such a huge rise in lifestlye related T2 over the last decade, the media just publishes that and groups all diabetes together to the point that despite being T1, people still assume I brought it on myself! How could I not be mad with that!?! Just like all the T2 people on here who are in the same boat and did not eat themselves into a T2 state!</p><p>I would bet that if I stopped 100 people on the street & asked them what diabetes is, a massive if not majority chunk would say it's something you get when you're fat/have a bad diet.</p><p>[USER=261817]@jekyll79[/USER] as far as the disabled thing goes, I don't know about that, IMO <strong>technically</strong> I think we are, in the sense that we have something seriously wrong with us - how else would you put it? But I suppose it depends entirely on how you define "disabled". One of my best friends died from cancer. She wasn't in a wheelchair, or missing limbs...but she qualified as disabled.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zoze_j, post: 1121294, member: 261782"] There's a few people on here failing to see what is offensive about the artcle, and FYI I doubt any of us who [B]have[/B] taken exception to the article are looking to be offended, that's just ludicrous! But d'you know what, I [B][U]am fed-up[/U][/B] and nothing is going to change that! I like many of you am T1. I did NOTHING to end up with this condition, it was just pure sh*te luck & a shoddy immune system. So yeah, I think it's understandable that I get pretty fed-up by ignorance on the condition, and because there has been such a huge rise in lifestlye related T2 over the last decade, the media just publishes that and groups all diabetes together to the point that despite being T1, people still assume I brought it on myself! How could I not be mad with that!?! Just like all the T2 people on here who are in the same boat and did not eat themselves into a T2 state! I would bet that if I stopped 100 people on the street & asked them what diabetes is, a massive if not majority chunk would say it's something you get when you're fat/have a bad diet. [USER=261817]@jekyll79[/USER] as far as the disabled thing goes, I don't know about that, IMO [B]technically[/B] I think we are, in the sense that we have something seriously wrong with us - how else would you put it? But I suppose it depends entirely on how you define "disabled". One of my best friends died from cancer. She wasn't in a wheelchair, or missing limbs...but she qualified as disabled. [/QUOTE]
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