okay so i just needa vent on how mad it something makes me.
i was just on myspace and this kid sent me a sticker, and it had sata laying on tha graound dead, and said "guess what? santa clause got diabetes from all your damn sugar cookies. thanks a lot!"..people just push ma buttons. you cant get diabetes from as everyone likes ta say "eating too much sugar". and ta top off tha enda ma night i gotta a call from ma friend and she was really upset, because someone she knows was talking crap about diabetes, and us diabetics. that person told her tha same thing that kids used ta say in elementary school..you wanna know what thye said? well im gunna tell ya..they told her na ta talk ta diabetics because, she will catch tha "disease"(i hate that word). and she told them na shut up because they dont know what theyre talking about and that her best friend sense she was 2(me) has had diabetes for almost ma whole life. well just wanted ta vent on how mad this makes me. anyone else feel that way, or have people talk ta them like theyre a "freak", because they have diabetes? i thought that this ended in tha 4th grade. guess na. well if you read this thanks.
Unfortunately, most of us here on Juvenation have dealt with something similar to this. I agree, I thought it would have ended a long time ago too. The best way to stop this is just to calmly explain what diabetes really is.
I usually say something along the lines of, "No, diabetes isn't contageous, but apparently ignorance is. You seem to be talking about type 2 diabetes, which is SOMETIMES caused by too much sugar. However, I have Type 1, and there is no known cause for it. I would greatly appreciate if you would learn the difference, because it does hurt when you are outcasted because of something that you did not cause nor can you fix"
Hope that helps, feel free to message me if you ever need someone to talk to(:
thanks Savs. and i used ta just be all calm about it. ba its realy getting old. it isnt really it hurts me as much as it is that it hurts ma friends ta hear all tha bs(and i dont mean blood sugar lol). it hurts me ta see them get upset and cry while defending me. htey shouldnt have ta go through that. it hurts them more than me at times. i dono. ba im gunna try ta get tha principle at tha high school i just started in Nov. ta have an assembly or something about diabetes, and let me and whom ever else has type 1 diabetes and type 2 and their families talk. so we can end peoples confusion between tha two, and hopefully educate them more, and end their ignorance.
Sounds like you have amazing friends! I'm not sure my friends would go that far to stick up for me.
Yea, I know that at my school, right now we're having a fundraiser for JDRF, and our school news program did something very similar to that. It really helps people understand.
im trying..so far nothing. i have a letter that im writing ba i wanna make it sound good, ba at tha same time tha facts are more important than sounding good. right? so if you have any ideas of how i can make this happen id love ta hear em. i did it in elementary school, ba that was in NY. everything in NC seems so different. everyone finds what im trying ta say a joke, and diabetes is no joke. im mean seriously you ask anyone tha top 4 death causing diseases are..and they will tell you that AIDS, and Cancer are tha top 2..and when you tell em that type 1 diabetes is tha 4th top cause..they laugh and say stop trying ta be so dramatic. its so annoying. ba ive delt with it seince before i started school so.
im trying..so far nothing. i have a letter that im writing ba i wanna make it sound good, ba at tha same time tha facts are more important than sounding good. right? so if you have any ideas of how i can make this happen id love ta hear em. i did it in elementary school, ba that was in NY. everything in NC seems so different. everyone finds what im trying ta say a joke, and diabetes is no joke. im mean seriously you ask anyone tha top 4 death causing diseases are..and they will tell you that AIDS, and Cancer are tha top 2..and when you tell em that type 1 diabetes is tha 4th top cause..they laugh and say stop trying ta be so dramatic. its so annoying. ba ive delt with it seince before i started school so.
Wow!! I have never had something said to me about diabetes just one thing that i didnt really pay any attention to and this girl which is my friend she was like i gonna throw this thumb tack at you joking around i was like no she goes it aint like you have never been poked by a needle and i was like ohh yeahh but my really good friend behind me goes that was really rude and she was like i didnt think so and she was like well it was and she goes sorryy if that was rude to you i didnt mean it that way lol but i mean i didnt take it that way but my friend thought it was rude and took up for me lol..If i ever had someone like make fun of me cause i have it or talk about it or something this problem you had i would probably go off on them and no telling what else..
lol. ya i used ta flip out, and i would get in fights and in trouble over it(of course). ba i have had it before i started school. i was 3 when i got it. this was in 1996. and i mostly had problems in 4th grade. there was this chika and she was always telling people things like "dont touch jessica youll catch her disease", "if you drink after jessica youll die like shes gunna", or she would go around in middle school and say "did you hear jessica's high again taday? that bi*ch is always on drugs". i got used ta it and i really mostly ignore it. now my friends on tha other hand, they dont ignore any of it. they fight, yell, and argue with people about it more than i ever have. it gets annoying.lol. they think theyre helping though. ive had tha same true group of friends seince i was born really, they grew up around it because i have it, so they know it all.
my favorite thing someone said, wasnt actually rude, it was ma now fiance, we had just started dating and i was like "babii will you get me a glass of water, im high", and he went "JESSICA RENEE I THOUGH I TOLD YOU NA TA SMOKE, YOU PROMISED", and i just looked at him and said "babii i mean ma numbers are high, i need water". he felt so bad. so now we joke about it all tha time.
Yeahh that would be me lol Wow!! Well i got mine in 7th grade and i am in 9th now but no one has said anything to me like that but wow i would probably go off like your friends do hahah One of my really good friends her dad has it but dont really take care of himself but she helps me alot and stuff but yeahh that makes me mad just thinking about how someone could say that lol
ya it can be stressful, but hey i have the rest of my life to live with this so might as well make the best of it, plus really its first nature to me i dont know any other life, i dont remember what its like to be able to eat anything i want, its been to long, and i was too young to remember.
but ya lol..my fiance hes something, but hes my best friend really, i mean he encourages me to do better, and not give up on anything, and make my dreams come true all tha time. my family dont even support me as much as he does. he still cracks me up.
before i met him he smoked pot all tha time, i changed that(didnt force him he chose to do it on his own i dont know how i caused it ba he tells me he changed for me).ba anyways anytime i say im "high" he looks at me funny, then i s like oh your numbres..lol. it gets me everytime. i play it with him sometimes like just messin with him till he catches on that im na on cloud 9 lol. still after almost 3 months of dating, and 7 months of being engaged=1o months tagether, he still gets confused when i say high. i find it really cute.
Hahah yeahh lol I would say i would probably get use to it but no one has ever said nothing so they first times i would be pissed lol yeahh thats prettyy funnyy lol I dont really remember life withour diabetes either i mean it aint been that long but i kinda dont really lol
ya it defenitaly grows on ya..everyonew i know is like they need ta find a cure NOW!! ba really if they do find a cure i dont think i wanna be cured. ive had it ma whole life, i dont know how ta live without it. i just wouldnt know what to do.
Ohhh girll i am way different from you iw ould take it in a second cause i worry to much about my sugar and i hate it and i have panic attacks from all the worrying and stuff lol so i would take it anyday
oh im na gunna sit here and tell you i dont get scared, because i do..its just tha only life i know..its like taking a rich kid with maids, and servants, and everything they want done for them done by someone else, and making them homeless in a matter of seconds. i do get scared i get scared a lot, i have came within a breath of dying too many times ta count over tha years, more in tha past about a year than any other time, and its al because of my diabetes. i dono halfa me says go and do it if they find one, and tha other half goes..what tha hell would you do?...lol..its really just a matter of would i be able to live with out it, because i would really feel like i had ta relearn life over. and id end up living just how i am now anyways.
Yeahh i understand what your saying to but like my sugar can be 150 and ill check it like 25 minutes later cause i am scared it will drop and i want feel it you know? that is my worst fear of diabetes is not knowing its low and passing out..I am so scared of that and there has been so many times that i have been 40 something 50 something and once 32 and i have never passed out and i am soo scared and i barley go anywhere with my friends cause of diabetes i am scared once again to pass out and everyone will you freak out and forget what to do i let it get to me to easy but then again i dont idkkk..If i dont eat like right on time or a little after i start gettin scared and end up having a panic attack.When i went for pump training it was like 5 15 and i usually eat at 4 45 and i started getting scared and breaking out and that women is like maybe we should end it and finish the next time and my sugar was like 180 and i was still scared and i dont know why lol but i do understand your reason of not getting cured..
Aw, Amanda..I feel bad that you're that scared about getting low and passing out. :( Do you have a sensor? I got one and it really helps with catching lows before they get really low. I've passed out a few times. It does suck, but it's not really that bad and honestly, I've always woken up like really soon after passing out and then I just drank juice and I was fine.
Haha its okayy lol..No i dont.I have heard the aint always right and stuff i dont know..Wow yeahh i dont wanna do that but i am sure it will come one day lol
water off a ducks back, my friend. It's the only way to take this kind of stuff. Most people don't know anything about it or care to. A very small percentage of the population has it. Thus the misconceptions. Doesn't really mean anything. Just ignore it. it ain't worth getting all excited or stressed out about. People say all kind of stupid things.