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<blockquote data-quote="tim2000s" data-source="post: 1155304" data-attributes="member: 30007"><p>Hi, as someone who grew up (from 13) with T1D, let me give you a different perspective. I've had it since I was 13, so over 27 years, and I've never really let it stop me doing anything (except Scuba diving with BSAC - whole other story). I'm kind of into my second career having started as a Technologist and moved into something else. I went to Uni. I've spent lots of time in the UK, out of the UK, travelling around the world. I've survived food poisoning myself in Bangkok, swimming the mile from boat to beach when travelling the Whitsunday Islands, driving cars around racetracks, playing cricket for more than half my life, sometimes in exotic places. I think I've had a full and successful life so far, and I've another four score years that I intend to continue doing so.</p><p></p><p>Speaking for myself, I don't really consider Type 1 Diabetes as "This thing I have". Sure, it's a thing. And I have it. But I also have a knackered shoulder, wobbly fingers and a bad left big toenail that falls off every year from playing twenty-five years of cricket and trying to emulate Courtney Walsh and Curtley Ambrose. I have a pair of glasses which I have to wear because I inherited bad eye genes from one or the other side of my family. I have a corn as the result of not quite walking properly which results in abnormal pressure on the sole of one of my feet. And I have a sense of humour that's often in the gutter. I like to think I'm bright, but then that also highlights that I may be a bit arrogant. I have confidence that I can achieve things, and I have ambition. I'm a person with diabetes, but also a photographer, festival goer, cricketer, lover, house owner, brother.</p><p></p><p>So what's my point? "I" am a compound of all of the things that have happened to me, the experiences I've had, the genes of my parents and ancestors and the world I live in. Diabetes is simply one of those things. It's a part of me and it's part of what makes me how I am. Do I wish I could have a day off? Well, no. I'm not concerned that it is something that gets in the way of my life and that I have to think about constantly. It simply isn't. It's just something that I deal with when it's necessary to deal with it, like that bad shoulder.</p><p></p><p>And that's the point. Diabetes maybe a bit of a hump to get over, but it shouldn't define you, and you can definitely live with it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tim2000s, post: 1155304, member: 30007"] Hi, as someone who grew up (from 13) with T1D, let me give you a different perspective. I've had it since I was 13, so over 27 years, and I've never really let it stop me doing anything (except Scuba diving with BSAC - whole other story). I'm kind of into my second career having started as a Technologist and moved into something else. I went to Uni. I've spent lots of time in the UK, out of the UK, travelling around the world. I've survived food poisoning myself in Bangkok, swimming the mile from boat to beach when travelling the Whitsunday Islands, driving cars around racetracks, playing cricket for more than half my life, sometimes in exotic places. I think I've had a full and successful life so far, and I've another four score years that I intend to continue doing so. Speaking for myself, I don't really consider Type 1 Diabetes as "This thing I have". Sure, it's a thing. And I have it. But I also have a knackered shoulder, wobbly fingers and a bad left big toenail that falls off every year from playing twenty-five years of cricket and trying to emulate Courtney Walsh and Curtley Ambrose. I have a pair of glasses which I have to wear because I inherited bad eye genes from one or the other side of my family. I have a corn as the result of not quite walking properly which results in abnormal pressure on the sole of one of my feet. And I have a sense of humour that's often in the gutter. I like to think I'm bright, but then that also highlights that I may be a bit arrogant. I have confidence that I can achieve things, and I have ambition. I'm a person with diabetes, but also a photographer, festival goer, cricketer, lover, house owner, brother. So what's my point? "I" am a compound of all of the things that have happened to me, the experiences I've had, the genes of my parents and ancestors and the world I live in. Diabetes is simply one of those things. It's a part of me and it's part of what makes me how I am. Do I wish I could have a day off? Well, no. I'm not concerned that it is something that gets in the way of my life and that I have to think about constantly. It simply isn't. It's just something that I deal with when it's necessary to deal with it, like that bad shoulder. And that's the point. Diabetes maybe a bit of a hump to get over, but it shouldn't define you, and you can definitely live with it! [/QUOTE]
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