Type 1s: What stupid things have people said to you?

Have you got the bad type or the good type?

As if there is such a thing!

Indiana x


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"So you haven't got real diabetes then?" or "How did you catch that?" or "Does it hurt?" or one of my favourites "where did get it from?" My answer to that one is "Aisle 3 Tesco Express only cost me £2.99!"

.......................I will think of others and post as I remember them

 

I have had that one.

 

Do you have the type that goes low or the type that goes high?
From someone who was trying to sound educated about it, bless.

 

I've had that one too!

Indiana x


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'So you ate a poor diet as a child then?'
'So it is hereditary then, best you don't have kids'
All because it happens that me and my brother in our family are both type one!
And the best one-
'I am going to get myself checked for diabetes too cos I keep feeling really faint and low in sugar' cos apparently they have 'the other kind of diabetes'
Grrrrrrrr!!



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Is it catching? (from a worried schoolfriend keeping his distance)

 

Question "Do you know that emergency glucagen injection, do I need to stab it into your heart?"
Answer "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"

 

As you have very good control using a pump does that mean you can go back too injections so someone else can use the pump instead? This was asked by a nurse at a main Devon hospital last week.

 

Well that's almost... informed! Type 2 being the type that goes high, Type 1 (or insulin dependent) being the type that goes low. You can sort of see how it makes sense.

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Are you still on insulin.

 

Isn't diabetes when you eat too much sugar or if you're really obese? I get that one a lot -.-

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I get asked that so much too! I have even been asked 'so how many weeks worth of insulin do you have to have until it's gone?' as if diabetes is a common cold! If only it was something that could go away!


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How about "you can't eat that!" When people see you eating something that isn't salad!

Indiana x


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yes but if you lose weight you will be cured.

 

"Oh, it's best you don't have a biscuit, don't want you going hypo on me!"...hmmm yeah, we wouldn't want that!

"Please don't have a hypo, I don't want to use an epi pen on you!"...I really hope you wouldn't!

And the best one "if you ate this bar of chocolate, would you die?"


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At least they knew there are some kind of "types"... Most people don't.

The most annoying ones I had were: "i knew someone who had diabetes so you shouldn't eat that!"

 

You will never have children then! Well I have four wonderful children and not one diabetic.


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