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<blockquote data-quote="Pipp" data-source="post: 864748" data-attributes="member: 100904"><p>[USER=184512]@Anaelena[/USER] I acknowledge you have had a tough time with your diabetes. It is so sad that your childhood was marred by such bad health experiences. Also that you still suffer. I certainly do not want to compete with you or anyone else as to who has had the toughest time. I do not want pity from anyone, so will not list the medical complications I have had since childhood, or the awful damage from some of the treatments I have had. Instead I would congratulate anyone who, like you, and myself, has overcome many obstacles to have had a career, successful marriage or partnership with someone who has also had a successful career, and despite all odds has given birth to, and raised children, who have in turn become successful in their chosen careers and become really decent caring people. We taught our children that empathy for others means that you have to consider that your own opinions and beliefs may differ from others but everyones opinions and beliefs have validity. If they expect others to understand their beliefs and have empathy then it has to be a reciprocal arrangement. </p><p></p><p>Your original post was a rant by your own admission. That and later posts suggested you have anger and hurt that is unresolved. I am so sorry for you that you still have pain. You are not alone. My first response to your post was my way of trying to agree you had it tough. I was trying to support what you were expressing and to be more inclusive. It would appear that some have misinterpreted that and tried to make this a devisive argument. That was never my intention.</p><p></p><p>I hope you can find peace and be well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pipp, post: 864748, member: 100904"] [USER=184512]@Anaelena[/USER] I acknowledge you have had a tough time with your diabetes. It is so sad that your childhood was marred by such bad health experiences. Also that you still suffer. I certainly do not want to compete with you or anyone else as to who has had the toughest time. I do not want pity from anyone, so will not list the medical complications I have had since childhood, or the awful damage from some of the treatments I have had. Instead I would congratulate anyone who, like you, and myself, has overcome many obstacles to have had a career, successful marriage or partnership with someone who has also had a successful career, and despite all odds has given birth to, and raised children, who have in turn become successful in their chosen careers and become really decent caring people. We taught our children that empathy for others means that you have to consider that your own opinions and beliefs may differ from others but everyones opinions and beliefs have validity. If they expect others to understand their beliefs and have empathy then it has to be a reciprocal arrangement. Your original post was a rant by your own admission. That and later posts suggested you have anger and hurt that is unresolved. I am so sorry for you that you still have pain. You are not alone. My first response to your post was my way of trying to agree you had it tough. I was trying to support what you were expressing and to be more inclusive. It would appear that some have misinterpreted that and tried to make this a devisive argument. That was never my intention. I hope you can find peace and be well. [/QUOTE]
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