kirkwallhellmouth

A pessimist is what an optimist calls a realist.

Druuuums. Drums in spaaaaace.

To add to something the post I just made points out (that Type 1 isn’t just for children)…

People of ALL ages can have Type 1 or Type 2 or LADA; everybody who has diabetes developed at whatever age they developed it, and then they continued to age.

Most television ads involving diabetes or diabetes medication/supplies, however, paint diabetes as involving only two age groups: children and people over 50. That’s also about how a lot of the actual literature on diabetic health and nutrition does it, too.

This leaves a HUGE age bracket in middle in a “…so what do I do?” zone. Because people who get diagnosed as kids grow up. They become young adults and then adults and have different needs than kids and older people. But as far as marketing goes? Yeah, they don’t exist as far as people who only know about diabetes from TV ads are concerned.

As someone with Type 1 diabetes who has firmly aged out of childhood and is edging toward the older end of young adulthood…it’s a weird feeling, when I stop and think about it.

vendettared:

and it also can’t be cured by a raw-vegan diet like some people who can’t grasp science seem to think.

Things that suck: finding something on Spotify that you want to share…and then finding out that that track is, for whatever reason, not available in the US.

i-justreally-like-cats-okay:

Calming CAT!

allcreatures:

He comes in peace: a panda cub at the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda at the Wolong nature reserve in Sichuan, China. Photograph: Katherine Feng/Minden/Solent

Tumblr, when I click on the “Settings” button, I want to look at my settings, NOT LOG OUT.

That is the second or third time that clinking on the setting button has done that.

Like, usually it functions fine.

But sometimes…not so much.

twohandedengine:

star trek: deep space 9 | duet

Enough good people have already died. I won’t kill another.