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Originally Posted by Real4  I'll refrain from using the words that come to mind.
Using insulin means that you are subject to passing out, sometimes with little or no notice.
That has happened to me once, which I attribute to injecting my longacting into a vein by accident.
I was lucky and was not in a situation where I had responsibility for other people's lives at the time.
It would be totally irresponsible of me to take any situation where I routinely was responsible for people's safety by being alert second by second.
I don't like it, but that's the way it is.
Your have responsibilities whether you like them or not. Children may evade them to a certain extent, but for adults to do so is criminal. |
Not disclosing Diabetes to an employer is completely understandable in my opinion. Employers can exclude you from a promotion or from a special assignment for it and simply say you aren't experienced enough. I would never and have never told my employer or coworkers about it because in my line of work, there is the possibility this would happen.
I was excluded from two positions after graduation, one with the Secret Service and one with the CIA, since neither accept anyone dependent on insulin (two more positions that we cannot do) even though 90% of positions for both of these organizations are desk jobs. Is there a possibility I could pass out? Yes, but no more than the average person. Diabetes is no longer the somewhat unpredictable condition people thought it was 20 years ago, it is 99% controllable, and if it means me not getting a promotion simply because I may be a liability, I'd rather my employers not know.
