Since the day of my diagnosis, the notion of diabetes being “normal” has been drummed into me. I can still remember my father reassuring me that although I would be stuck with diabetes forever, I would still live a completely normal life. “The treatments have come so far, son. There will definitely be a cure in your lifetime.”
I rejected this notion that diabetes made me different. I hated seeing campaigns and stories that shed a light on some of the consequences of diabetes. I wanted so badly to project an empowering, superhero-like image of diabetes to the world, even if there were highs and lows along the way.
Rick Phillipsr
I have never minded the AD’s or being different. Maybe that is the age I was Dx”d or maybe it just never mattered. I think part of it is that for me diabetes was expected and I would have felt different if I had not been Dx’d.
Different time, different expectations.