Campaign to End Diabetes Stigma

Currently, there is a global effort to pledge to make the world a more supportive, understanding, informed and caring place for people living with diabetes by eradicating " diabetes stigma " . This has been a matter which Renza Scibilia has invested considerable effort to address (catch her post athttps://diabetogenic.blog/2023/07/31/sign-the-pledge-to-end-diabetes-stigma/ for details) and I wish her well in the venture. To sign the pledge, visithttps://enddiabetesstigma.org/. Diabetes stigma is something I ' ve been forced to endure for nearly a half-century (I was diagnosed with T1D in 1976; you do the math). When it comes to diabetes, ignorant people feel entitled to shame, blame, and disrespect people with diabetes of all types. These are the same people who use diabetes as a lame punchline in bad jokes on TV, or make irrelevant comments like if a T1D just ate better they could go off insulin which is a falsehood because of the etiology of their disease.Make no mistake: I ' m as sick of d-stigma as many seasoned diabetes veterans are because I ' ve endured it for nearly 5 decades, but I have also grown to disregard lack of support or understanding because no one fixed the issue for me. Hence, I no longer care what other people think of people with diabetes. Its also no longer a top priority for me to fix personally. I care about the issue, but its just that as an issue, it ' s going to have to be something the younger crowd of diabetes advocates work to fix and they ...
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