Dawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. This is so cute it gave me diabetes. :3
Why in gods name would you associate cuteness and diabetes? You do realize what diabetes is, right? Infections, hospitalizations, syringes, bleeding… doesn’t sound very cute to me.
WHOAH calm down.. you don’t need to get so angry. She didn’t mean it in an offensive way. We both are in a sorority where over 50% of our girls have diabetes, so we know that it’s not a walk in the park, it was just a figure of speech.
Whoa, it’s almost like intent isn’t magic and you can be offensive without meaning to be! (On that note, just because you know diabetics doesn’t mean anything in cases like this)
See, but we watch them go through those struggles and make this joke all the time (literally, this joke is said all the time). Because they can live their life without dwelling on the fact that they have a disease. We do not need anyone to criticize something we hear from diabetics all the time. I understand where you’re coming from, but I also want to show you our side. It was a little thing, I’m sorry if it offended you.
Addressing the bolded part. You may hear these jokes from the diabetics you know and hang out with, and if they allow you to participate in these jokes, that is fine when it’s around them. Because they have fairly clearly given you permission to joke about it with them.
Note the emphasis there. Just because the diabetics you know personaly are okay with these jokes does not mean that other diabetics are okay with these jokes. A lot of diabetics find these jokes annoying, ignorant, and harmful. If a diabetic finds these jokes offensive, they have ever right to tell you, “That’s not funny.”
Because unlike a diabetic, a non-diabetic does not live diabetes, and does not get a free pass to make jokes about the disease just because they know someone who is okay with the joking.
The “my friend/family member is a diabetic, so I can do this” is a really, really annoying excuse.
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