Tag: seriously

In honour of diabetes awareness month…

mottorolaa:

Here’s a little bit of diabetic etiquette for people who DON’T have diabetes!

  • DON’T offer unsolicited advice about my eating or other aspects of diabetes: You may mean well, but giving advice about someone’s personal habits, especially when not requested, is not very nice. Besides, many of the popularly held beliefs about diabetes (You should just stop eating sugar) are out of date or just plain wrong.

  • DO realize and appreciate that diabetes is hard work: Diabetes management is a full time job that I didn’t apply for, didn’t want, and can’t quit.

  • DON’T tell me horror stories about your grandmother or other people with diabetes you have heard about: These stories are not reassuring.

  • DO offer to join me in making healthy lifestyle choices: Not being alone is one of the most helpful things for me.

  • DON’T look horrified when I check my blood sugars or give myself an injection: It’s not a lot of fun for me either. Checking sugars and taking medications are things I have to do to be healthy. If I have to hide while doing so, it makes it much harder for me.

  • DO ask how you might be helpful: If you want to be supportive there may be lots of little things I would probably appreciate your help with. However, what I really need may be very different from what you think I need, so please ask first.

  • DON’T offer thoughtless reassurances. When you first learn about my diabetes you may want to reassure me by saying things like “Hey, it could be worse; you could have cancer!” this won’t make me feel better. And the implicit message seems to be that diabetes is no big deal. However, diabetes (like cancer) IS a big deal.

  • DO be supportive of my efforts for self-care: Help me set up an environment for success. Please honor my decision to decline a food choice, even when you really want me to try it. You are most helpful when not being a source of unnecessary temptation.

  • DON’T!!! Peek at or comment on my blood sugars without asking me first: These numbers are private unless I choose to share them. It’s normal to have numbers that are sometimes too low or high. Your unsolicited comments about them can add to the frustration, disappointment, and anger I already feel.
  • DO offer your love and encouragement: As I work hard to manage my diabetes, sometimes just knowing you care can be very helpful and motivating.

The thoughtless reassurance one… grrr.

    bedabug:

    thanking black voters for saving this race but honestly

    white people we got to get our SHIT TOGETHER an overwhelming majority of white men voted for moore and over 60% of white women voted for moore like what the FUCK

    we cannot keep demanding black people build (and also then save) this country especially because sure as fuck don’t help them when it counts

    Doctors Are Now Saying That Menstrual Cramps Can Be as Painful as Having a Heart Attack

    akiameokami:

    phiralovesloki:

    frenchswissborder:

    onlyblackgirl:

    foryoursexualinformation:

    And in other news, water is wet

    Not like women have been telling y’all this since the beginning of time or anything.

    I mean, yeah, at one point three years ago I was curled up in a fetal position literally screaming/crying/gasping for breath on my bed in my dorm room, so my response to this headline is basically, “No shit.”

    No wonder women are so likely to ignore heart disease/attack symptoms. If something isn’t as bad as my cramps, I figure it can’t be that bad.

    THAT LAST COMMENT

    Doctors Are Now Saying That Menstrual Cramps Can Be as Painful as Having a Heart Attack

    popelizbet-blog:

    shwetanarayan:

    positivethinkingforlosers:

    Last night the Senate blocked the passing of the amendment protecting care for those with #PreExistingConditions and #Disabilies. 49-49 with 60 needed to pass. 

    Ok, Tumblr! Time to start doing what you do best. DEMAND ACTION AND KEEP RECEIPTS! 

    Find out how your senators voted there’s an election in 2018 and they’re going to have to account for their actions 

    AND CALL YOUR SENATORS! 

    Tell them to vote NO on ACA repeal, tell them to #Protectourcare

    UPDATE: Cause I queued this but I’m falling asleep to C-Span heh,  SENATE PASSES BUDGET RESOLUTION 51-48 Moves towards repeal of #ACA … l

    Let’s get those receipts printed ppl ! CALL YOUR SENATORS!  CALL BOTH OF THEM. CALL THEM EVERY DAY. 1-888-897-9753

    able friends and allies, we need you for this.

    We need those of you who aren’t too sick to intervene, to care enough to intervene.

    I’m not worried for myself (yet) but my  friends’ lives are at stake here. Please, please do call if you can.

    Preexisting conditions laws left me stuck at terrible jobs. When I absolutely had to pay for COBRA once to keep from getting a permanent exclusion, it was $1600 a month. Please.

    Inspired by something I read in a comments section

    (And yes, I know one should never read comment sections on…most anything, these days, but lo, I am occasionally weak)

    People who have a disability–whether it’s a physical, medical, cognitive, or mental health issue–get to choose how they talk about having that disability. And they even get to decide whether or not they see it as a disability. If they prefer to say “I am bipolar” instead of “I have bipolar disorder,” that’s their choice, their right to deal with it on their own terms. Sometimes people use wording interchangeably; sometimes I say “I have diabetes” and sometimes I say “I’m diabetic.” My thing, my choice in how I call it.

    If you see some use the “I’m __” construction and you don’t have that “__”, you don’t get to “correct” them and tell them to use person first language; you really shouldn’t tell someone how to word their relationship to whatever they may live with even if you do have that same thing.

    And either way, you really, really should not ever chunk in the words “suffer from”. Because that shows your ableist ass even more than “correcting” someone about how they should talk about what they live with.

    And while you’re at it, stop pitting physical and mental illnesses against each other. It’s gross. They both get told a lot of the same shit–I know this, because I live with both (type 1 diabetes and anxiety and depression). A lot of people live with both, and get thrown all kinds of bullshit because of both.

    So do not do this.

    aurghhh:

    I’ve just been reading people freaking out at Target in the US no longer labeling their toys “girls” and “boys”. A fairly common response is something like “How will I know what to get my granddaughter for her birthday if I don’t know which are the girl’s toys?” Hmm, well, what does your granddaughter like? Maybe you could actually get to know her and find out what her interests are rather than treating her as a generic representative of her assigned gender. Just a thought.

    infjconfessions:

    seriouslyamerica:

    I’m so fucking tired to seeing “gluten-free” lumped in with anti-vax, morally superior assholes. 

    Are there people who go gluten free in some ill-advised attempt to lose weight? Yes. But the literal only treatment for my disease is not a punchline. It’s not some shorthand for overzealous white suburban soccer moms. 

    These jokes make it more likely servers in restaurants will take my health needs less seriously. I see you when you roll your eyes in disbelief over my food requirements, but your disdain won’t stop my intestines from shredding themselves if you disregard my needs.

    Stop using gluten free when you mean patronizing, overbearing, smug, sanctimonious, or whiny. Stop using it as a shorthand for high maintenance and demanding. 

    Making fun of people’s dietary needs isn’t edgy, it’s gross, and I’m reallllllly tired of seeing it so often from people who claim to be fighting for a more inclusive world.

    This goes for all other dietary requirements, you don’t know why a person is asking for gluten-free or sugar-free even if they’re doing it out of a fad please respect it, you could put a person in a hospital for a week just because you think they’re just being annoying.