[ErikaA]

lol well I already fought this battle this month...and trod on lots of toes in the process. But I stand by my thoughts on it.

so rant warning and please forgive in advance, if I offend....

I get sick and tired of hearing people denigrate type 2s on the grounds that they can avoid their disease. It smacks to me as an excuse to abuse people for being over weight. And worse, it's only okay to be overweight if you don't have type 2 diabetes... no one has a go at over weight type 1s because they couldn't prevent their diabetes...

It's not politically correct to pick on someone for being overweight... but it's okay if they have type 2??

And the only reason I have heard for not being associated with type 2s has smacked of 'we didn't do it to ourselves' which translates quite directly to 'they did'. You've all got diabetes people.

You don't have to verbalise it directly for it to be discrimination and misinformation. Since when was there a prize for how your pancreas died???

It isn't as if type 1s are all saints on looking after themselves. And in both types you can be a complete saint and still suffer from complications and you can totally abuse yourself and have none.

If I was allowed to choose which type I had (as it's still up in the air) I would choose type 2... because so far not one type 2 has suggested that I deserved it.

And I love this forum because people don't treat each other like that here... so I really hope it won't start.