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<blockquote data-quote="jimmyt1988" data-source="post: 148092" data-attributes="member: 20899"><p>Well before you pick mine apart, just make sure you know diabetes is a disability.</p><p><a href="http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/Living_with_diabetes/Discrimination/" target="_blank">http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-dia ... imination/</a></p><p>before posting again. Wouldn't like to see you get a fact wrong.</p><p></p><p>I'm not one to complain about my diabetes... I'd say all of my friends would back me up on that "Oh it's not a big deal" kind of attitude. I'd say this is the first time i've actually complained *scratches head*. I actually think it's just that time in my life where i'm starting to question how poor ole me gets diabetes (which is understandable of course, I'm not a robot without emotions, and I am allowed to feel a bit bloody down about it once in my life as im sure ud agree <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ). I mean, I've always had a very good understanding of my diabetes and so it does make it easier to cope with, so I guess I never really complained before, it's recent things like wanting to move out or go on holidays on my own that really expose how irritating it is to keep on top of hehe. </p><p></p><p>I remember the doctor telling me that diabetes can be caused by extreme stress. My parents pinned it down to the Christmas day where my alcoholic uncle pushed my Nan of (70 years old) over breaking her beautiful necklace, enraging my already disabled grandfather. I rememeber hearing so much shouting down stairs and my brothers crying alongside me and I had the flu at the time too when I was 7... Horrific day and I think my parents always blamed my uncle for it so it's a "Why me?" kind of question or a "can I really blame it on one person"... Which I decided not to so I plodded on through life thinking very positively about having the disability, forgiving my uncle for the awful event (which ironically continued to happen and still happens), you know.. Oh it's not all bad, atleast I get to skip queues at theme parks... Makes it worth while hehe *giggles*.</p><p></p><p>It also helped to see my grandad lose his toe, foot, ankle, lower leg, upper leg, eye sight, life from bad diabetic control. I didn't want that to happen to me so I forced myself to be bloody good at controlling it. It's an odd thing to be presented with (and youll all know this) the realisation that if youre not doing it right, your shortening your life. *shivers*.</p><p></p><p>Try understand that I'm not some trolling blubbering idiot with a passion for self pity.. I guess i'm trying to... I don't know.. I guess, I'm trying to regain just a tiny sympathy from these bigger places.. I think that I was a little confused as the times I had gone to such places before, I'd just let my parents go pick up the disability bands and I'd be like "yay", see i can cope with diabetes because It's not all bad, someone understands!</p><p></p><p>Perhaps I'm talking to the wrong people, I should be talking to the youngsters but I'm only 21 and for some reason I still feel that I kinda deserve a little chin up. As I think you all do.. I guess it's also because I never ever complain about my diabetes that my only escape and acknowledgment of my condition / disability / illness was at these places.</p><p></p><p>I'm sure you'll manage to pick this post apart too but I'm really trying to level it all out again. I was surprised before which triggered my anger button because when explaining it to a friend, they always go "goodness of course you deserve it" because they know the type of person i am and how i never complain and never even mention the words diabetes so they'd probably understand it differently from internet users who don't know who i am and thus would understandably find it hard to comprehend the angle at which i'm coming from.</p><p></p><p>That's a lot of writing. I'd better get to work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jimmyt1988, post: 148092, member: 20899"] Well before you pick mine apart, just make sure you know diabetes is a disability. [url=http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/Living_with_diabetes/Discrimination/]http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-dia ... imination/[/url] before posting again. Wouldn't like to see you get a fact wrong. I'm not one to complain about my diabetes... I'd say all of my friends would back me up on that "Oh it's not a big deal" kind of attitude. I'd say this is the first time i've actually complained *scratches head*. I actually think it's just that time in my life where i'm starting to question how poor ole me gets diabetes (which is understandable of course, I'm not a robot without emotions, and I am allowed to feel a bit bloody down about it once in my life as im sure ud agree :) ). I mean, I've always had a very good understanding of my diabetes and so it does make it easier to cope with, so I guess I never really complained before, it's recent things like wanting to move out or go on holidays on my own that really expose how irritating it is to keep on top of hehe. I remember the doctor telling me that diabetes can be caused by extreme stress. My parents pinned it down to the Christmas day where my alcoholic uncle pushed my Nan of (70 years old) over breaking her beautiful necklace, enraging my already disabled grandfather. I rememeber hearing so much shouting down stairs and my brothers crying alongside me and I had the flu at the time too when I was 7... Horrific day and I think my parents always blamed my uncle for it so it's a "Why me?" kind of question or a "can I really blame it on one person"... Which I decided not to so I plodded on through life thinking very positively about having the disability, forgiving my uncle for the awful event (which ironically continued to happen and still happens), you know.. Oh it's not all bad, atleast I get to skip queues at theme parks... Makes it worth while hehe *giggles*. It also helped to see my grandad lose his toe, foot, ankle, lower leg, upper leg, eye sight, life from bad diabetic control. I didn't want that to happen to me so I forced myself to be bloody good at controlling it. It's an odd thing to be presented with (and youll all know this) the realisation that if youre not doing it right, your shortening your life. *shivers*. Try understand that I'm not some trolling blubbering idiot with a passion for self pity.. I guess i'm trying to... I don't know.. I guess, I'm trying to regain just a tiny sympathy from these bigger places.. I think that I was a little confused as the times I had gone to such places before, I'd just let my parents go pick up the disability bands and I'd be like "yay", see i can cope with diabetes because It's not all bad, someone understands! Perhaps I'm talking to the wrong people, I should be talking to the youngsters but I'm only 21 and for some reason I still feel that I kinda deserve a little chin up. As I think you all do.. I guess it's also because I never ever complain about my diabetes that my only escape and acknowledgment of my condition / disability / illness was at these places. I'm sure you'll manage to pick this post apart too but I'm really trying to level it all out again. I was surprised before which triggered my anger button because when explaining it to a friend, they always go "goodness of course you deserve it" because they know the type of person i am and how i never complain and never even mention the words diabetes so they'd probably understand it differently from internet users who don't know who i am and thus would understandably find it hard to comprehend the angle at which i'm coming from. That's a lot of writing. I'd better get to work. [/QUOTE]
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