Once again WiseWords takes the sledgehammer approach, and once again can't give any useful advice without throwing in a few insults.
Jesus Christ mate, what the **** IS YOUR PROBLEM? You obviously know what you're talking about (generally), so why is it that you always, ALWAYS have to go in guns blazing without even remotely stopping to think about how other people are going to react? Do you really get off on trying to sound like you're superior? I admit, sometimes you do need to be firm to get your message across, but there's a world of difference between being assertive and being just plain arrogant and you don't seem to have a clue where the line is whatsoever.
Have a heart will you? We're all p***ed off because we got given a the bum deal in genetics, but those of us with half a brain or a proper personality just deal with it instead of taking it out on others. Are you even capable of seeing things from someone else's perspective? TShelton's just been shafted because he can't get the career he really wants through no fault of his own, he comes here looking for support and advice, the rest of us here give it, give him some options, and then you come along and what happens? You just rub salt in the wound. I'm not disputing that TShelton is going to find it difficult, we all know that life's hard enough anyway without having a terminal genetic failure, but if we all just fold over and give up the moment things become difficult, we'd never get anything done. Maybe you've just lost too many battles and have become disenfranchised, but I'm a born warrior and I'll fight to the death for my rights if I think I've got a case.
They said I shouldn't scuba dive because I was diabetic. I've dived in Tenerife, Cornwall, and the Great Barrier Reef, and I'm a qualified BSAC diver.
They said I'd never be able to do shift work because it'd scew up my control. I spent my summer doing shift work to pay my way through university and I was absolutely fine.
They said I'd never be able to everything that other people my age do, like drinking, or all-night parties. I do this stuff every week.
Quitting's for losers. You've got to fight tooth and nail, and it's not fair, but it's the way it is and you ever sit back and accept what people say you can and can't do because you've got diabetes, you're betraying yourself and the rest of us, because if you lie back and let people walk over you just once, they'll do it again and again.
If you're so convinced that because we have diabetes that we're delicate, fragile individuals who spasm in hypos the moment we start jogging, I'd like to point you firmly in the direction of Tim Hoy, a firefighter (a career that has haphazard schedules). He has diabetes, and yet, bizarrely, he's able to do his job, because he refused to accept the received 'wisdom' that people with diabetes can't do those kinds of jobs. Go to
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/%7Eirfduk/irfd3.htm and read his story, and look at
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/%7Eirfduk/irfd2.htm to see exactly how to cope in those kinds of jobs with diabetes.
We've got enough ignorant morons out there who think that we should be limited in what we do just because we have to think a bit more before doing anything. We don't need a 'Wise'Words as well.
