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Permalink Reply by Turbo on February 24, 2011 at 7:21pm

Every, single, time when I'm at work and I tell someone that I'm diabetic I get the same response,
"Really? Were you fat when you were a baby?" or "Did your mom give you too much sugar as a child?"



So my answer is usually along the lines of "No, but were you dropped on your head?"

Seriously gets annoying, my coworkers find it hilarious now though haha.

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Permalink Reply by Manuel on February 27, 2011 at 12:26pm

Ok I dont know whether you are going to criticize me for saying this or not, but I DO believe that there are some people who you cant tell you have diabetes, A LOT of the people I know dont know about my condition, cause simply, they will get me wrong and start believing wrong things about me, and I just hate the fact that I have to explain everything when I know I wont get any positive feedback.. They just DONT get it and probably never will.. Tell your reaally close friends only, the people you hang out with.. thats my point of view, and I dont know how but I just know who I can tell..

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Permalink Reply by latvianchick on February 27, 2011 at 1:41pm

You are right in thinking this. Some people just see the negative and not the positive. For example I have been banned from the local prison where I could do so much good, but because I have diabetes they will not let me in!

I spoke to my father (unintentionally) on the phone and did not want to speak to him so told him that I was diabetic and had just taken insulin so needed to eat my supper (I vomitted it up from the shock). He just said that that was a novel excuse for not speaking to him!

And my sister nearly banned me from going to visit her in America because she had read something I posted about having to go to the hospital to get checked out when I had a high, but she had to know that I was diabetic - though she was not sympathetic at all! Her comment was "I cannot afford to have you getting ill!" Gee, thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Linda G on February 27, 2011 at 8:38pm

Oh my gosh latvian....if you can't get support from your family, honestly!! Shame on them!!!

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Permalink Reply by Linda G on February 27, 2011 at 8:31pm

I'm with you Manuel....I don't shout it from the roof top. I teach at a small school....and not everyone there knows (at least I didn't tell everyone!!)...only those who needed to know at one time or another...for example, an overnight camping trip with 65 children and 5 other teachers, at to an outdoor education centre where hiking and very active games were involved!!

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Permalink Reply by Jasmine on February 27, 2011 at 9:04pm

I hate when my family tell other people that I have diabetes. Every else who has diabetes in my family (which is a lot) is Type 2. So when they tell people about me they don't say that I'm Type 1 or insulin dependent. They say I have it worse or the bad kind...lol. My gone grandma be like she worse than me she on that insulin...lol I'm like dang guys thanks! I guess I'm the worst! lol

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Permalink Reply by Brunetta on February 28, 2011 at 12:25am

Ameena. I get asked all the time if I have the "worst kind?" I tell them that all diabetes can be " the worst kind" . I say it is "dependant on your perspective., all persons with diabetes face challenges". They look at me quizically, and if they are interested and ask questions, I tell them a bit about diabetes and different types. If they do not convey an interest, I "Keep on steppin' "( to the next topic or to the next conversational partner.)

God Bless,
Brunetta

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Permalink Reply by Judith on February 27, 2011 at 9:52pm

Over the years, I have posted several "most annoying" comments in this thread. Recently, I had one that evidenced ignorance, but also deep love and concern and I did not find it annoying, but rather endearing. It helps, of course, that it came from my beloved daughter in special and new circumstances. She and her partner khow now how to cook the most delicious super lo-carb meals for me when I visit......

I visited her just a couple weeks ago, daughter-in-law and grandsons, too, in Santa Cruz. They wanted to whisk me off to Tahoe to play in the snow and witness, at last, their skiing life (I grew up in the deep cold & snow of Minnesota, but never skiied) as even my 7-year-old grandson skies.

Loved it. But she knew we would be heading up into blizzards and a dangerous drive. And so part of the prep was a blunt "will you have a low? It could take hours for help to get to us. How can we prepare?" .......

She had gestational diabetes 7 years ago and she is a scientist (a decade in the lab in liver cancer research) but still, the fact that I am a T2 on no meds (yet!) didn't cut through her anxieties for her Mom and such an expedition.....

She was a Rock on the drive and I had snacks along, mostly to reassure her, and white-out-blizzard-tension aside, the trip was fantabulous. Played in the snow. Altitude made me run high, but only for a few days.

Sometimes, inexperience/ignorance can open the heart instead of making me angry. This is a lesson I celebrate.....Just thought we all might like a break from the damn idiocy of all the superficial, stupid comments we encounter....love you all.....Judith in Portland, OR, USA

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Permalink Reply by Kelly on February 28, 2011 at 12:12am

Hoooray to you Judith!!! This was refreshing....
(Sounds like you've done a remarkable job as a Mom!)

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Permalink Reply by latvianchick on February 28, 2011 at 12:15am

Ha ha! Your daughter sounds a brick! It wasn't your daughter that burnt the breakfast in Lake Tahoe were you? My sister was there and had to spend half an hour outside in the snow in her pyjamas waiting for the fire to be put out!

Glad you had a good time though, from cold and frosty UK!

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Permalink Reply by Linda G on February 28, 2011 at 3:59am

Judith...though I'm now on meds, and DO have lows (and have had LOW lows)....I have also had lows before going on meds! So it's not unlikely that you COULD have become hypo..

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Permalink Reply by Kathy on February 28, 2011 at 7:26am

I have had several but I think the most annoying came from my Mother who said to me " If you ate like your brother you would not have diabetes. Well the ironic thing is that one month after she said this, my brother was diagnosed.

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