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<blockquote data-quote="rottweilsteve" data-source="post: 134679" data-attributes="member: 2984"><p>Take as your analogy HIV. Now before everyone gathers up theirs skirts in a hissy fit (not that I expect them too, but I do like the image!) about how diabetes is nothing like HIV, in the dark days of the eighties, when everyone had a funeral to go to every week, our shining hope was that that HIV would become a controllable illness, "just like diabetes".</p><p></p><p>I have type 2 diabetes, so I can easily hide my gliclazide in with the rest of the pills. (Not that I get the chance to have anyone to hide them from out here in the middle of nowhere!) My brother (T1, HIV-) is constantly aware of the curiosity and occasional hostility of others when he needs to inject. There are times when you think public ignorance couldn't go any lower, and then it does. My brother is something of a high flyer, eating in the expensive places, yet has still been asked to "do it in the toilet". Injecting, that is...</p><p></p><p>It's really difficult to say any more as it was cyrryan's posts that opened up this discussion beyond the narrow parameters of last year's Pride. Maybe this difficulty is a reason why a separate forum would be a good idea: from what I've seen over the past [mumblety]five years (okay, I remember the Sex Pistols) coming out hasn't got any easier, and though I've only been diagnosed diabetic for a few years, I'm still coming to terms with that while still dealing wih life as an out gay man in a small village - no, smartarse, it's not Llanddewi Brefi, though I do have the only rottweiler in the village. The fact that I'm also a longterm survivor of HIV disease (and that my diabetes was almost certainly caused by the anti-hiv drugs) is another thing to think about.</p><p></p><p>I can imagine situations where a diagnosis of diabetes encourages someone to go the rest of the way and start coming out as lesbian/gay in a "let's get it all over with". I recant my posting of 02 August 2009 and hereby state that I think that lesbians, and especially gay men (as a result of early versions of anti HIV drugs) should have a self run forum within this board.</p><p></p><p>Steve</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rottweilsteve, post: 134679, member: 2984"] Take as your analogy HIV. Now before everyone gathers up theirs skirts in a hissy fit (not that I expect them too, but I do like the image!) about how diabetes is nothing like HIV, in the dark days of the eighties, when everyone had a funeral to go to every week, our shining hope was that that HIV would become a controllable illness, "just like diabetes". I have type 2 diabetes, so I can easily hide my gliclazide in with the rest of the pills. (Not that I get the chance to have anyone to hide them from out here in the middle of nowhere!) My brother (T1, HIV-) is constantly aware of the curiosity and occasional hostility of others when he needs to inject. There are times when you think public ignorance couldn't go any lower, and then it does. My brother is something of a high flyer, eating in the expensive places, yet has still been asked to "do it in the toilet". Injecting, that is... It's really difficult to say any more as it was cyrryan's posts that opened up this discussion beyond the narrow parameters of last year's Pride. Maybe this difficulty is a reason why a separate forum would be a good idea: from what I've seen over the past [mumblety]five years (okay, I remember the Sex Pistols) coming out hasn't got any easier, and though I've only been diagnosed diabetic for a few years, I'm still coming to terms with that while still dealing wih life as an out gay man in a small village - no, smartarse, it's not Llanddewi Brefi, though I do have the only rottweiler in the village. The fact that I'm also a longterm survivor of HIV disease (and that my diabetes was almost certainly caused by the anti-hiv drugs) is another thing to think about. I can imagine situations where a diagnosis of diabetes encourages someone to go the rest of the way and start coming out as lesbian/gay in a "let's get it all over with". I recant my posting of 02 August 2009 and hereby state that I think that lesbians, and especially gay men (as a result of early versions of anti HIV drugs) should have a self run forum within this board. Steve [/QUOTE]
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