Whats the most annoying comment you've ever gotten about diabetes?

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Permalink Reply by Linda Gauvin-Miller on January 30, 2009 at 1:27pm

Oh man....what a total jerk!...Who needs losers like that to bring you down....There's always one lurking in the crowd isn't there?

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Permalink Reply by Don Kelly on January 30, 2009 at 3:53pm

You can't be a diabetic. All diabetics are either old or fat.

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Permalink Reply by Linda Gauvin-Miller on January 30, 2009 at 6:16pm

OK....OK....Here's another good one....from a pharmacist. I was buying dextrose tabs, and commented on the fact that they were taxed, and that they shouldn't be, because they're not candy...they're a med. And that the other drugstore I usually frquent has never taxed them....so this moron replies, "Oh, this pack is taxed because its flavoured!" ( CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS???) So I replied, "Well give me the non-flavoured ones then! And he did....tax free!

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Permalink Reply by Shiv on February 1, 2009 at 1:38am

that is GENIUS. what an idiot!

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Permalink Reply by Xanthasun on February 4, 2009 at 1:54pm

I really liked reading through the thread and seeing that others have gotten the same comments.

The following are two comments I received that were not annoying but interesting/strange.

When I was younger and talking to a friend (we were about 9ish). The friend asked me if food ever came back out of the hole where I injected the insulin (since I was doing injections in my stomach at the time).

The other was this really random encounter. There was an ice storm predicted in DC a few years ago and stupidly I went to the grocery store not taking this into consideration, so I endedup in this really long line. While waiting in line the woman in front of me suddenly asked if I had type 1 diabetes. She must have seen the surprise(particularly cause I don't wear any medical jewerly and my pump doesn't show on the outiside) because she explained that her one son has it and she had thought I might because the people that she's met with diabetes have similar facial features... like the set/shape of the cheekbones and nose...

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Permalink Reply by Emily Joy on February 4, 2009 at 1:59pm

woah... that is SO WEIRD! the face thing? that'd be so creepy if that were actually true (example: all people with heart shaped faces get type 1 diabetes... lol).

and, that's really funny, about food coming out through where you inject insulin. only a kid would ask that question, lol.

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Permalink Reply by Kelly Rawlings on February 4, 2009 at 6:04pm

Thanks for sharing. The first one made me laugh and nearly snort my mouthful of Diet Coke.

Sometimes there seems to me to be a certain sort of puffiness to the faces of people with type 1 (mine included), but then I'll meet a non-puffy type 1 and there goes that theory.

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Permalink Reply by Linda Gauvin-Miller on February 4, 2009 at 7:07pm

Wow!!!! That's a new one for me....never heard THAT before...and now I'm visualising people I know with D. and comparing their features to one another and to myself, and I have to tell you that I personally don't see any similarities...but it certainly will make me more attentive from here on!

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Permalink Reply by li0nandthelam13 on February 4, 2009 at 2:20pm

It's more the looks people give, like if you go to the bathroom in a restaurant to take insulin. When I was on shots I did that. One time a lady gave me a disgusted look and when her daughter came out of the stall and went to the sink next to me she grabbed her and took her out, wouldn't let her wash her hands. Kind of humors me though

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Permalink Reply by Sheila on February 4, 2009 at 3:57pm

When I told my mother (in 1983) that I was pregnant and she said "You're diabetic--you can't have a baby!! You will have to have an abortion..." At that point I asked her if she would have aborted either me or my brother and she shut up. I'd been diabetic for 22 years at that point and she had taken care of me until I left home. I lost the baby anyway, but I was devastated when that happened and she said "Good". Believe it or not, my mother was a wonderful person, but this was the most annoying thing anyone has ever said about my diabetes.

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Permalink Reply by Anthony Holko on February 4, 2009 at 5:20pm

Amazing how cruel mommies can be. When I first developped diabetes we had to renovate an appartment to be able to re-rent it. I was feeling very sick and told her that we should forgo one month's rent and renovated at a reasonable pace over the next few weeks. She told me to get with it that my life was not worth the $500.00 before tax gross revenue that we would loose.

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Permalink Reply by Linda Gauvin-Miller on February 4, 2009 at 6:56pm

You wonder what would cause a parent to be so insensitive to their child's needs!

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