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<blockquote data-quote="DCUKMod" data-source="post: 2279407" data-attributes="member: 345386"><p>Random, unsolicited advice is something everyone gets about almost everything, and trust me, you will have done this many, many times yourself - whether you realise it or not.</p><p></p><p>You seem to think Type 2 is a stroll in the park. Trust me on this. It's very different to T1, but it's not necessarily simple. Let's just use that well-worn saying, "Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes" .</p><p></p><p>Frankly, you are allowing your neighbour to irritate you. That's your problem. Not theirs. Ignore them.</p><p></p><p>There's a saying, "Opinions are like *********. Everybody has one." Never has there been a truer truism.</p><p></p><p>Whilst nobody should feel they should have to hide their diabetes (or anything else for that matter), there are times when sharing information can quickly become sharing too much information.</p><p></p><p>I can recall years before my own diagnosis, chatting with a neighbour, about this and that. During that conversation she made reference to someone who lived nearby, but whom I didn't know. When I intimated this, my neighbour tried to describe the lady concerned. It went something like this: "Of course you know X. She's the diabetic lady."</p><p></p><p>What? What? I never, ever want to be labelled in that way, or for diabetes to become my primary identifier. I have zero wish to be "the diabetic lady".</p><p></p><p>You are very early into your diabetes, and in no time at all, hopefully, people like your neighbours will have something else to talk about, but why feed them gossip material?</p><p></p><p>Many of these outcomes are in your own hands.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DCUKMod, post: 2279407, member: 345386"] Random, unsolicited advice is something everyone gets about almost everything, and trust me, you will have done this many, many times yourself - whether you realise it or not. You seem to think Type 2 is a stroll in the park. Trust me on this. It's very different to T1, but it's not necessarily simple. Let's just use that well-worn saying, "Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes" . Frankly, you are allowing your neighbour to irritate you. That's your problem. Not theirs. Ignore them. There's a saying, "Opinions are like *********. Everybody has one." Never has there been a truer truism. Whilst nobody should feel they should have to hide their diabetes (or anything else for that matter), there are times when sharing information can quickly become sharing too much information. I can recall years before my own diagnosis, chatting with a neighbour, about this and that. During that conversation she made reference to someone who lived nearby, but whom I didn't know. When I intimated this, my neighbour tried to describe the lady concerned. It went something like this: "Of course you know X. She's the diabetic lady." What? What? I never, ever want to be labelled in that way, or for diabetes to become my primary identifier. I have zero wish to be "the diabetic lady". You are very early into your diabetes, and in no time at all, hopefully, people like your neighbours will have something else to talk about, but why feed them gossip material? Many of these outcomes are in your own hands. [/QUOTE]
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