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<blockquote data-quote="Cjmen" data-source="post: 250432" data-attributes="member: 41785"><p>You should answer yes as the conidition has the potential to affect your ability to undertake daily living (even though it is not at this time, it stil could in the future) </p><p></p><p></p><p>I would dispute this, anything has the potential to affect your ability to undertake daily living in the future. Its NOT a disability or a CONDITION as you put it. Its simply a way of life we live which just happens to be healthier than lots of people without diabetes. Should someone who is overweight declare that in the future they might have heart disease? Should someone who smokes declare that they might get smoking related diseases? Should someone who undertakes extreme sports declare they might get hurt? The answer to all these is no and the same goes for diabetes!</p><p>Im sorry to rant but in my 23 years as a type 1 I have seen many occasions like this where people want to broadcast what they have and the complications that it might cause. I have also seen the reaction from people who are not familiar with diabetes. These attitudes of ignorance have probably contributed to things like the restrictions I have on my driving license, I couldnt scuba the barrrier reef, fly in a glider and parachute, all because of peoples ignorance, we shouldnt encourage that and the best way we can try to be treated as equals is not to remind people all the time what we have together with the complications that some people get.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cjmen, post: 250432, member: 41785"] You should answer yes as the conidition has the potential to affect your ability to undertake daily living (even though it is not at this time, it stil could in the future) I would dispute this, anything has the potential to affect your ability to undertake daily living in the future. Its NOT a disability or a CONDITION as you put it. Its simply a way of life we live which just happens to be healthier than lots of people without diabetes. Should someone who is overweight declare that in the future they might have heart disease? Should someone who smokes declare that they might get smoking related diseases? Should someone who undertakes extreme sports declare they might get hurt? The answer to all these is no and the same goes for diabetes! Im sorry to rant but in my 23 years as a type 1 I have seen many occasions like this where people want to broadcast what they have and the complications that it might cause. I have also seen the reaction from people who are not familiar with diabetes. These attitudes of ignorance have probably contributed to things like the restrictions I have on my driving license, I couldnt scuba the barrrier reef, fly in a glider and parachute, all because of peoples ignorance, we shouldnt encourage that and the best way we can try to be treated as equals is not to remind people all the time what we have together with the complications that some people get. [/QUOTE]
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