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<blockquote data-quote="MauroM" data-source="post: 2005848" data-attributes="member: 501742"><p>I'm new here, but felt I had to comment on this topic.</p><p>When I was first diagnosed, I really felt like nothing good could come from being diabetic. It was like I was <em>strictly</em> worse than a non-diabetic version of myself.</p><p>13 years later, as a masters student in engineering, I'm glad to have grown up learning almost daily about statistics, tendencies, complex systems responses, having <em>immediate</em> effect on my health related decisions (as opposed to, say, waiting years for the consequences to show): basically, if something messes with my blood sugar readings, it is probably bad for me, and forcing myself to a rotine of self care and exercising (it had great effect on my appereance). It's a level of awereness that would not be possible for a non-diabetic me.</p><p>I like this awereness, I like that I learned to love and care for myself, I like that I have an understanding of physiology and nutrition far beyound my peers and I like that, by definition, I have an unusual way at seeing and dealing with life.</p><p></p><p>I'm also glad to have excuses to missing appointments I don't really want to attend.</p><p></p><p>(english is not my first languange, sorry if something doesn't make sense in my reasoning)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MauroM, post: 2005848, member: 501742"] I'm new here, but felt I had to comment on this topic. When I was first diagnosed, I really felt like nothing good could come from being diabetic. It was like I was [I]strictly[/I] worse than a non-diabetic version of myself. 13 years later, as a masters student in engineering, I'm glad to have grown up learning almost daily about statistics, tendencies, complex systems responses, having [I]immediate[/I] effect on my health related decisions (as opposed to, say, waiting years for the consequences to show): basically, if something messes with my blood sugar readings, it is probably bad for me, and forcing myself to a rotine of self care and exercising (it had great effect on my appereance). It's a level of awereness that would not be possible for a non-diabetic me. I like this awereness, I like that I learned to love and care for myself, I like that I have an understanding of physiology and nutrition far beyound my peers and I like that, by definition, I have an unusual way at seeing and dealing with life. I'm also glad to have excuses to missing appointments I don't really want to attend. (english is not my first languange, sorry if something doesn't make sense in my reasoning) [/QUOTE]
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