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<blockquote data-quote="catapillar" data-source="post: 1645861" data-attributes="member: 32394"><p>I don't think of my type 1 as a disability - I certainly don't think I'm disabled. I certainly don't need anyone to give up a seat for me (perfectly capable of hanging standing up on moving train and testing my blood sugar at the same time). But I am very aware that I benefit from the Equality Act protections for people with disabilities. Legally, the test for whether you have a disability under the Equality Act is whether you have a long term condition that <strong>without treatment</strong> has a significant adverse impact on your ability to carry out day-to-day avtivities. Without treatment, I'd give it maximum of a week before I was unconscious in DKA, which would be a pretty significant adverse impact. So, to ensure that I can do my treatment and I don't end up in a position where I am <em>actually</em> disabled the Equality Act provides me with protections so that restaurants can't refuse to serve me because I'm injecting, venues can't refuse to let me in because I have needles on me, my workplace can't apply a rule that says no food on the shop floor to me, work have to let me have time off to attend hospital appointments. That's why I do tick the box that says I have a disability when filling in diversity questionnaires at work etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catapillar, post: 1645861, member: 32394"] I don't think of my type 1 as a disability - I certainly don't think I'm disabled. I certainly don't need anyone to give up a seat for me (perfectly capable of hanging standing up on moving train and testing my blood sugar at the same time). But I am very aware that I benefit from the Equality Act protections for people with disabilities. Legally, the test for whether you have a disability under the Equality Act is whether you have a long term condition that [B]without treatment[/B] has a significant adverse impact on your ability to carry out day-to-day avtivities. Without treatment, I'd give it maximum of a week before I was unconscious in DKA, which would be a pretty significant adverse impact. So, to ensure that I can do my treatment and I don't end up in a position where I am [I]actually[/I] disabled the Equality Act provides me with protections so that restaurants can't refuse to serve me because I'm injecting, venues can't refuse to let me in because I have needles on me, my workplace can't apply a rule that says no food on the shop floor to me, work have to let me have time off to attend hospital appointments. That's why I do tick the box that says I have a disability when filling in diversity questionnaires at work etc. [/QUOTE]
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