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Thread: "SO AND SO Has Diabetes REALLY BAD."

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05-06-2008, 08:16 AM

solox316

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I am a: Type 1

Join Date: Jul 2004

Location: Livonia, MI

Posts: 518

I tend to agree that people who say this simply don't know. It is out of ignorance. It used to bother me, but I realize now that many many many people simply have a misguided idea of what diabetes is. I tend to make a joke of it... If someone asks if it is the bad kind, I simply say "Yes, but it is the REALLLYYY bad kind!" and chuckle...

I am sure I have made statements about other diseases/conditions out of ignorance...

If time is available, and it is a comfortable arrangement, I will attempt to explain T1/T2... as well as people's control leading to severity of complcations.. etc...

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