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April 1st 2009 @ 11:50 am by Brenda Bell
Categories: Real Life
Tags: self-identification social attitudes
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Categories: Real Life
Tags: self-identification social attitudes
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Every so often, a discussion will pop up about how to refer to those of us with glucose metabolism issues. Whether it's "diabetic versus person with diabetes", "borderline versus prediabetes", or even the whole "Type 1 / Type 2 / Type 1.5 / Gestational / Other" schema, these discussions run very deep to the core of our sense of identity... perhaps just as deeply as skin tone, religion, or ethnicity.
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April 30th 2012 @ 11:31 pm by Brenda Bell
Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management blood sugar tests diabetes supplies empathy guilt HbA1c Health Insurance parents shame understanding
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management blood sugar tests diabetes supplies empathy guilt HbA1c Health Insurance parents shame understanding
Views: 562
We spend much of our formative years looking for approval from parents, teachers, older siblings, and friends. We spend our teen years and early adult years looking for approval from (potential) spouses. A recent #dsma chat reminded me how much we, living with diabetes, still spend our lives searching for approval.
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