I just don't get it.

Type 2 diabetes is a hard thing to deal. Not the illness that is just a matter of adjusting how you live. It can be a pain since 2 people can do the same thing and get totally different results. But once you find how it works for you it can be controled. The thing that is find hard is the world and community of diabetes.

I think it's great to share information and we can all do this through the web. We all have our own opinions and ideas and it is up to us to figure out what we want to find relavent to our own situation.

But there are just somethings I don't "get".

One thing is the idea that we should not be called Diabetics but PWD aka Person with Diabetes. Why would anyone want any part of an illness that they have as part of a label about them. I am a person. I have diabetes but I choose to not be a diabetic or a PWD. Just being a person is hard enough.

For years people have been fighting discrimination against the diabetes community. We don't want to be singled out for having diabetes. We don't want to get fired because of it we want to be treated just like everyone else. We want others to be sensitive to our needs just like they would be to anyone else's. Now you have a group that comes out with a list of etiquette rules for peole who don't have Diabetes to follow around people that do. Maybe I'm missing something but doesn't that go against the whole don't discriminate against me because I have diabetes? It's like the diabetes world has a split personality. On the one hand saying I have Diabetes treat me like anyone else then they Say I have Diabetes here is how you should behave around me. I guess even the world of Diabetes wants their cake and to eat it as well. Hope it's a low carb cake.