Im so tired of being the blunt of everyone’s jokes. im short-barely 5’1-, A.D.D, diabetic, gullible,blush easily and often and shy. So… after church a bunch of people get together and eat. A friend of a friend (being the insenstive jerk he is) hands me a package of sugar and says here, go kill yourself.NoT FUNNY right? everyone else thinks so. i was so shocked i excused myself and just left. Now i have tried again and agaain to explain to people im a bit sensitive when it comes to that and i get tired of the jokes. I’ve already dropped my one and only friend i’ve made since moving to Tn because of it. it got to the point i’d rather be alone than to be with her. I don’t want people to not know. it feels too dangerous. My bld sugars are jumpy from time to time when i have the motivation to control it. (A1c =9) Grrrrrrr. Im at a loss for words and motivation.
Hi Brittany, sorry to hear about this tough time! It’s hard when people are not at all sensitive to what you are going through. The fact that this guy was so insensitive shows that he doesn’t know much about diabetes and he doesn’t get what it means for you.
I think that the most important thing that you can do is to educate people around you. But this can be tiring. I go in waves where I want to teach everyone about life with diabetes and times where I just don’t want to talk about it.
Use this community as your support-- people here get it!!! Then where you have the energy, you can educate the people around you and hopefully they will be more sensitive about it.
Diabetes is a lot easier when you know that you are not alone! You’re not! We’re here…
Hmm seems like you have alot of close people around you that rather than learn about it, they rather do like most of the population and ignore it. It seems that I also have taken their insecurities about it and used it against them, injecting myself in front of them and making and whincing about the pain to just put them over the edge or best is to leave the needle dangling from my arm as if nothing was wrong. That usually puts them over the edge… That always brings the question “how can you do that.” and the answer always is “It’s all about living and dieing, and I’m choosing to live.” They generally never question or give me looks when it comes to my diabetes again. However when there are people who ask and are generally interested in what I am doing, I engage them and inform them the best I can so then they can learn and be informed about diabetes and what it takes on a daily basis. And I love kids because they are so honest, earlier this summer at my cottage that we share with others there was 3 kids watching my do my thing, and they start asking questions but when I was giving my needle I let them push the plunger in. And of coarse the other kids were in line for the next injections along the day, but they were not afraid and they learned a little bit about diabetes. You will find your niche to deal with these people… until that time stay positive… and when you are down there is some one here to lean on… 
Mike
The good thing is that the others were shocked too. I can imagine that he felt not very comfortable with all the others around him. He made a fool of himself and the group will judge him on his behaviour.
Please allow yourself another view. Most people have no idea what we are doing in the background. Being subject of very bad jokes could also show that we are perceived as normal human beings. They know that we can not eat sugar but it seems odd because we live a very normal life. I mean no one would make a joke in front of someone with a wheelchair. But we diabetics are so 99% normal and sometimes we eat cake and sugar too. Very confusing for those who have no clue about it.
Please do not pick this one jerk and mix it up with other bad thoughts about yourself. I was 17 when I got diabetes and I thought that all girls (especially those I liked) would dislike me very much. I thought that everyone would immediately know that I am different. That I would have diabetic children and so on. So just be fair with yourself.
Thanks for the input guys it means alot. and ya’lls words just made everything seem so much better. ;] Understand im very open about my diabetes and am not insecure with it in the least bit. that one just pushed a few sore spots.
Brittany… something happened like that to me, yesterday at church. I was talking to a bunch of friends, and we were all laughing and having fun. This one guy has the worst sense of humor, and is always saying stupid clueless things. When I was first diagnosed, he said… “Why are you wearing that dogtag? So that when you die, people will know your name?” I was like… “how stupid is that?!?” So, anyways…
Yesterday, I was talking about how I wanted to go skydiving for my 18th birthday. I then added in that my mom is afraid of me dying while skydiving. i said something like… “But you know what?! How awesome would that be, to die skydiving? I mean, it’s my birthday… and i’m falling through the sky, knowing I’m gonna die.” I said it with A LOT of sarcasm. And, then… we laugh. And, I begin to walk away. Once I had walked away, this guy says “Well, you’ve got diabetes… and you’re going to die young anyways, so… why not?” I’m shocked he would say something so stupid. I mean, he’s 17! get a life! But, yeah. anyways, my dad’s going to talk to his dad… and hopefully he’ll get some sense knocked into him. I mean… he has no clue what he’s even talking about! Anyways, sorry to hear that this has happened to you before. It hurts, i know!
Sorry to hear about that incident. As long as you knew the real score and a lot of people cares for you, Damn that son of a gun. I am just making you laugh. Forget it, you are now with a bunch of cute, lovely and intelligent group of people. Advance Merry Christmas!
Was he called “Gordon” ? probably sits in the loo with his mates sniggering as well!!