I am such a movie lover and from this question it brings to mind the last scenes in the movie “The Breakfast Club”. So if you have not watched it a must. But the premise of the movie is that these kids spend saturday in detention and they are to write an essay about who they are.
So the end result of there paper is something like this,
But we think you’re crazy to make us write this essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us… in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal. Correct? That’s the way we saw each other at seven o’clock this morning. We were brainwashed.
So I think that line always sticks in my mind when it comes to diabetes because at one point or another we see ourselves through the eyes of others but only when we come to term with what we live with do we see a different person and we learn to appreciate that we still have something to offer to society. I have learned to see diabetes through the eyes of the many different people here. I know being here has opened up my eyes to the people who live with diabetes.
My thoughts on the subject