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

PaulinaB said:
I work with a girl who is type 2 and has some very picky knowledge about diabetes. She knows it's carbs (not "sugar"), and that bread is generally bad, but she has no idea about difference between t1 and t2.
She asks me questions like "how's your diabetes?" (What am I supposed to say? "Not too bad, we watched a movie last night"?!)

She was recently talking about how she started going to the gym 3 times a week (she's very slim) and how that made her doc lower her meds. She tried to suggest that maybe if I started exercising my doc will switch me to pills instead of insulin 0_0

She's actually not a first person who has no idea what "type 1" means and thinks that If I exercise and diet I'll be off insulin... I never know what to say to those people :/
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Oh dear! She must be quite challenged as it's all over the various websites - if you both to read them! :banghead:
 
Mother in law says "would you like a sweet? Go on, you'll be o.k with just one"

also, in the pub "what are you going to order - what about jacket potato, oh without the butter of course" !

When asked how I was getting on, I say "yes, fab, I've managed to get off insulin and my levels are now in the non diabetic range". She says "oh, you've done o.k then". Yeah, thanks a bunch, don't get too overwhelmed now will you?

When first diagnosed, she said "you haven't got it bad, you'll be o.k". Being on insulin is about as serious as it gets actually.

Sure she means well..........
 
My nan had type 2 diabetes much later in her lifetime bless her. I remember one time she said "my eyes feel like they've got bits in them, it must be the sugar diabetes"
 
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