I don't get directly tweeted very often, so when I do... I have a bit of a mild panic.
'Oh crap, what did I write this time?!'
I sometimes use Tumblr to release diabetes related stress. Usually it's during the very thing I am ranting about, so it's typed quite manically to get my point across. Let's face it, not one of my Tumblr posts is a thought out piece of writing. (Hence why I'm trying to make a more sophisticated blog... ish). And as it turns out, this was the post...
The Twitter account @type1girl had taken a screenshot of my rant (which had a few typos at the time - to my horror) and pinned it to the top of her profile saying 'praise whoever wrote this'.
Since then it's been retweeted and favourited over 200 times. Which in the grand scheme of things isn't a lot but I was still quite honoured, for the most part. For such a casual post, ranting about the life of a diabetic... for so many people to agree with it and 'praise' me for having the courage to write it, was a bit upsetting. I read it back now and the points I made are still valid, maybe I could have worded it a little better. However, the main points being;
At no point did I mean to come across like Diabetes is the worst thing in the world and we deserve to be treated like cancer patients. Not at all. Every illness is different and no illness deserves to be joked about or belittled or made in to a punchline. Which in a degree, is exactly what my point was. I also wanted to voice how Diabetics survive life with this 'manageable' condition, how it's bloody hard work and how we carry on like the fighters we are. Which is why sometimes it's infuriating to deal with ignorant comments. And obviously people agreed with me. Leading me on to the conversation I overheard in my local chemist yesterday. Obviously, I know absolutely nothing about their situation, I just happened to be waiting behind them to overhear this... Mother and daughter, who seemed to be picking up Grandma's prescriptions. Daughter: I understand why she gets her cancer stuff for free because y'know... it's cancer but why does she get her diabetes stuff for free? Mother: I don't know, she just does. If you don't learn about diabetes from school, your sick grandma or your mother... where do you learn about it?
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