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<blockquote data-quote="jekyll79" data-source="post: 1121985" data-attributes="member: 261817"><p>I say it [USER=281551]@serenity648[/USER] because I know it is true. 30 years a type 1 and I am no super hero. I believe it was Plato who said "No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.". This certainly seems to be true from my perspective. I am not denying that type 1 can be a pain, but it is manageable. When I was diagnosed nobody had pumps, cgms, etc, etc, and kids still lived. I did. Kids carried on like kids. Mothers didn't need to wake them on the hour, every hour for blood tests, we just got on with it. Now, every kid with diabetes is wrapped up in cotton wool, they have the best of the best tech (much better than most adults who have lived with it for far longer...and done more damage to their bodies), and their parents are allegedly having to work so much harder than mine did (the emphasis strongly on the word "allegedly"). I get frustrated because this prevailing attitude is damaging for anyone who doesn't want to play the "woe is me" game. It is also absolutely terrible for diabetic kids who are led to believe that they are somehow "broken" from an early age. Many parents don't do this (and I salute them for that), but there are a lot who do. Those who do are facilitated by the attitudes I have been commenting on here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jekyll79, post: 1121985, member: 261817"] I say it [USER=281551]@serenity648[/USER] because I know it is true. 30 years a type 1 and I am no super hero. I believe it was Plato who said "No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.". This certainly seems to be true from my perspective. I am not denying that type 1 can be a pain, but it is manageable. When I was diagnosed nobody had pumps, cgms, etc, etc, and kids still lived. I did. Kids carried on like kids. Mothers didn't need to wake them on the hour, every hour for blood tests, we just got on with it. Now, every kid with diabetes is wrapped up in cotton wool, they have the best of the best tech (much better than most adults who have lived with it for far longer...and done more damage to their bodies), and their parents are allegedly having to work so much harder than mine did (the emphasis strongly on the word "allegedly"). I get frustrated because this prevailing attitude is damaging for anyone who doesn't want to play the "woe is me" game. It is also absolutely terrible for diabetic kids who are led to believe that they are somehow "broken" from an early age. Many parents don't do this (and I salute them for that), but there are a lot who do. Those who do are facilitated by the attitudes I have been commenting on here. [/QUOTE]
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