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<blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 1680410" data-attributes="member: 372717"><p>Just a comment about the "stigma" of diabetes. When I became diabetic (1970) half the people at the diabetic clinic were T1s, so there wasn't any "fat and lazy" preconception because half the diabetics got it as a "skinny" pre 30 T1. In those days, young people got T1, "old" people got T2, a few young people had gestational diabetes which turned into T1 if you had too many pregnancies, and that was about it on the form diabetes could take.... There weren't any fat T1s, and there weren't any thin T2s. Obviously, we know that things aren't so simple now! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> But it does explain why I never felt any stigma about my diabetes, and the people I told about it were interested rather than accusing. Oh, and in those days most GPs lost at least one new T1 patient because they didn't diagnose them in time. (Hopefully that isn't the case now.) I've always felt that I'm doing a public service by educating as many people as possible about hypos!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EllieM, post: 1680410, member: 372717"] Just a comment about the "stigma" of diabetes. When I became diabetic (1970) half the people at the diabetic clinic were T1s, so there wasn't any "fat and lazy" preconception because half the diabetics got it as a "skinny" pre 30 T1. In those days, young people got T1, "old" people got T2, a few young people had gestational diabetes which turned into T1 if you had too many pregnancies, and that was about it on the form diabetes could take.... There weren't any fat T1s, and there weren't any thin T2s. Obviously, we know that things aren't so simple now! :) But it does explain why I never felt any stigma about my diabetes, and the people I told about it were interested rather than accusing. Oh, and in those days most GPs lost at least one new T1 patient because they didn't diagnose them in time. (Hopefully that isn't the case now.) I've always felt that I'm doing a public service by educating as many people as possible about hypos! [/QUOTE]
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