I’ve never had anyone
- Give me grief about injecting in public.
- Say “at least it isn’t cancer”
- Say “at least you don’t have the bad kind”
What am I doing wrong??
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me neither! I’ve also never had anyone
ask me “what’s that thing clipped to your pants pocket” (insulin pump)
ask me "can you eat that?"
ask me “can’t you do that in the bathroom” (check bg, inject)
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Me neither, I have snappy stock answers prepared and haven’t had a chance to use them.
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On the bright side, at least you don’t have cancer. 
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You do have the good kind. The kind that is properly under control with meds and not ever progressing to complications. I call that the good kind of diabetes! You also don’t have cancer lol. It could be worse. You could also have blood clots like me and have to worry about the thickness of your bloods every day.
Thanks to everyone above who “helped” by filling in the gaps in my experience . . . 
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I will never forget when the mom, whose daughter was in the bed next to Caleb’s who had also just been diagnosed with diabetes, told me about the little girl who had cancer…
That was probably her own coping mechanism kicking in, and at the time I was in a fog, not capable of being offended.
But otherwise, Caleb doesn’t get much of this either. We do hear, “when will he grow out of it” every so often. But if you don’t know, why would you know, ya know?
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I remember being in Children’s Hospital in Boston for a week when I was dx’d back in the 70’s. I think I was in a critical care ward, with cancer, burn and I remember distinctly, anorexic girls with feeding tubes in their nose. I had to ask some of the nurses who/what/where and why about each patient I saw. They almost did not have to say “at least you can control what you have” but a couple did. Going to say, although I was only 12-13, the message got through “I can control this, these poor kids cannot”…
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Another diabetic who hardly ever even treats her disease and used to eat candy in business meetings, when asked by another diabetic about her eating candy with diabetes, announced to everyone that (And I quote)… “yes, but Robert’s got it really bad.” She eats chocolate and yet I have it bad. I chuckle when I remember that.
I’ve gotten every one of them except the cancer one. I even get the food related ones from a Type 2 I know. Another T2 I know recently told me that since T1 is autoimmune, so is T2 (disclaimer: I’ve never heard that to be true, but I haven’t independently attempted to find out either, so if I’m wrong to list that one I apologize for my misinformation).
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I have lipoatrophy from pork insulin injections as a kid, so parts of me have what I like to think of as dimples. I did have a first date once where the other party said, “You’re kinda bumpy.”
… Next!
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