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View Poll Results: Which do you like to be called? | |
A person with diabetes
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06-01-2006, 11:50 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pacific Northwest
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| | | Political correctness - does it affect you?
My mother is big on being politically correct, and I just thought of something that pertains to this forum.
She has always taught me to put the person before the disease. Do you refer to yourself as a "diabetic" or a "person with diabetes"? Does it irritate you when people refer to you as a "diabetic"?
Have you ever corrected anyone about the terminology?
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06-02-2006, 01:27 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Paradise, NV
Posts: 305
| | | I don't bother. There's bigger things to get annoyed with than that. Tell your mother she's getting caught up in semantics.
If you check my posts elsewhere, I hear much stupider things than "I'm a diabetic" coming from fellow diabetics.
How about you just use it as an adjective?
"I'm diabetic."
I have a bigger problem with the term "politically correct" than with PC or non-PCness.
It's usually a blurry catch-all term used to tag any sensitivity the person using the phrase wants to stomp all over.
I remember when it was called "politeness" or just plain "common decency" rather than "politically correct."
I generally try not to say things that might upset people because I don't want to upset them. Regardless of how stereotypes or bigotry make another person feel, me saying them makes ME look like an IGNORANT AND UNCOUTH IDIOT. I try to avoid that as well. |
06-02-2006, 01:31 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: reno nevada
Posts: 245
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Personally I prefer Pancreatically challanged, or carbohydrate intolerate, insulin impaired, BUt thats just me =)  |
06-02-2006, 03:17 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة, دبيّ
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| | | I'm not a diabetic. I'm diabetic, or I have diabetes.
I've explained my reasons for this before elsewhere, but briefly:
1. Calling someone a diabetic is hugely reductive. You wouldn't call other people 'an asthmatic' or 'an arthritic' or 'a spastic'. You'd refer to them as having asthma, arthritis or CF. Why the double standard for us?
2. Go look at media coverage of people with diabetes. If it's a negative report, then they'll use the term 'a diabetic'. When it's positive, they'll use 'has diabetes'. For instance 'X is a diabetic and has lost a leg' vs. 'X has diabetes and has recently climbed Mount Everest'.
However, one of my friends sometimes refers to me as having a 'lazy pancreas'! |
06-02-2006, 05:19 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 8,367
| | | I always refer to myself as "I'm diabetic." I don't think of it in any other way.
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06-02-2006, 05:40 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Paradise, NV
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| | | Hopefully my being a person goes without saying. |
06-02-2006, 05:43 AM
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| | | I'm me. I also have diabetes and asthma, allergies, etc.... I don't intro myself to people with "Hi I'm liz and I have diabetes." It's not a banner I wear. It's a non issue. If someone questions why I'm injecting I'll explain. Conversly, I don't get offended if someone else intro's me as, this is liz and she's a diabetic. diabetes is just a small part of me as a whole.
Liz
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06-02-2006, 05:56 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 7,846
| | | Ahh, ya doesn't has to call me Diabetic! You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Johnny or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me RayJay, or you can call me RJ... but ya doesn't hafta call me Diabetic. |
06-02-2006, 07:34 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New Jersey
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Originally Posted by Cyborg Ahh, ya doesn't has to call me Diabetic! You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Johnny or you can call me Sonny, or you can call me RayJay, or you can call me RJ... but ya doesn't hafta call me Diabetic. |  Good one! |
06-02-2006, 12:09 PM
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| | Pesonally I prefer:
Sweet bag of Sugar
Taste-o-Honey
Sugary and Sexy 
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06-02-2006, 01:24 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: North UK
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| | | I have posted this on another thread here, what p**ses me off is when people without diabetes are refered to as normal
i.e "Your cholestorol reading would be ok for a normal person, but because your diabetic we need them lower"
I have no issue with getting the numbers lower, just being refered to as not normal.
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06-02-2006, 01:35 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Orlando, FL
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Originally Posted by Mister Q I have posted this on another thread here, what p**ses me off is when people without diabetes are refered to as normal
i.e "Your cholestorol reading would be ok for a normal person, but because your diabetic we need them lower"
I have no issue with getting the numbers lower, just being refered to as not normal. | At the rate this epidemic is growing, soon being diabetic will be normal... |
06-02-2006, 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by archimeech Pesonally I prefer:
Sweet bag of Sugar
Taste-o-Honey
Sugary and Sexy | I'm gonna be good and leave this alone. 
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06-02-2006, 08:16 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Sacramento, CA
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| | | When someone asks, I usually say "I'm defective" first!
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06-02-2006, 10:21 PM
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