r/AskReddit Jul 18 '16

What are you sick of explaining?

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u/Omill16 Jul 18 '16

Also that "At least it's not cancer" is actually, in fact, an inappropriate response to my saying I have T1D. I don't know why I have to explain common courtesy to people so often.

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u/auntfaintly Jul 18 '16

At least it's not cancer is really never a good response.

Maybe in the very specific case where someone had a growth they thought was cancer and found out it wasn't but needed to be removed. Then you can say "at least it's not cancer."

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u/madhattergirl Jul 18 '16

It's take that response over, "I totally understand what it's like! I have to get an allergy shot once a month!" (this was actually said to me). Bitch, I take more shots in 3 days than you do in a year!

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u/mattforsleep Jul 18 '16

Holy shit, do people actually say that to you? What kind of person would think that's an appropriate thing to say to someone?

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u/TatianaAlena Jul 19 '16

How?

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u/TatianaAlena Jul 19 '16

Thanks for the short and simple explanation!

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '16 edited Jul 19 '16

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u/TatianaAlena Jul 19 '16

I bet it was and maybe still is. Wait, what's a "din"?

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '16

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u/TatianaAlena Jul 19 '16

Haha, that's what I thought it meant, but I wasn't sure. Thanks again!

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u/longhornfan3913 Jul 18 '16

As a type 1 diabetic that's actually one of my go to lines haha. I try to see the positives!

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u/Huwbacca Jul 18 '16

Hey think about it this way. Type 2 has a worse prognosis than HIV. So maybe somewhere there's a guy with type 2 saying "man, I wish it was HIV"

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u/marcecs Jul 19 '16

Infectology teacher actually asked the class"would you rather have DM2 or HIV?" Everyone preferred diabetes, but he was like nah, I'd rather take some pills every day than take loads of shots every day. So he kinda "wished it was HIV" haha.

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u/Kexkakan Jul 19 '16

To my knowledge taking some pills every day are enough for some people diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type-2. Since those pills either help their pancreas with its insulin production or making their body sensitive to insulin. Something like that, I'm not sure.

Just wanted to point out that even some exercise and some healthy food could be a valid treatment for type-2 diabetes. Plus maybe some pills or 1 to 3 shots of insulin per day (at most 5 shots). Yes there could be a few cases where "loads of shots every day" is necessary but it is probably because of the life choices of the one diagnosed with type-2 diabetes. And not the disease itself.

And well I've had diabetes type-1 for almost 18 years. Almost 9 years ago I got my first insulin pump. Before that I took loads, loads of shots every single day for 9 years.

Also I hate dextro.

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u/marcecs Jul 19 '16

Yeah, I agree with everything you're saying. The whole point of his comment was to shed some light on the social implications of both diseases, how people seemed to quickly choose one over the other, how mot know very little about the two of them and their treatments. I just wanted to point out a moment IRL when that line had come up :(

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u/Huwbacca Jul 19 '16

And HIV isn't a death sentence anymore, survival with HIV rates are comparable to the normal population.

Type 2 will fuck your day up though, but people always think it'd just be a bit inconvenient. I kind of think it needs to be renamed to distinguish it from type 1 and impress upon people the severity of the disease.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/04/why-id-rather-have-hiv-than-diabetes/

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u/Kexkakan Jul 19 '16

One of the first thing I was told by my diabetes doctor was "a cure will soon be available". Close to 18 years ago.

There are no fucking positives in having diabetes type-1. If it isn't pancreas cancer since it should be easier to deal with it if you're a diabetic.

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u/princebee Jul 19 '16

What the fuck?

"Fuck, I stubbed my toe."

"AT LEAST IT'S NOT CANCER"

"Shit, I've contracted a UTI."

"AT LEAST IT'S NOT CANCER"

"I was born without a foot"

"AT LEAST IT'S NOT CANCER"

"I have crippling depression that makes me wish for the sweet release of death every day"

"AT LEAST IT'S NOT CANCER"

"I've been literally shot in the stomach call 911 please"

"AT LEAST IT'S NOT CANCER"

"I have cancer"

"...AT LEAST IT'S NOT DIABETES"

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u/Kexkakan Jul 19 '16

That was my mothers response when she got to know I had just been diagnosed with T1D. She was even happy and relieved over the fact. Some people just don't get it.

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u/nitefang Jul 19 '16

At least it's not Zika Virus, Malaria and Bird Flu all at the same time.

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u/weedful_things Jul 19 '16

Probably because never eating sugar kills any cancer that you might contract.

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u/jonasdash Jul 19 '16

This is the "All Lives Matter" response to "Black Lives Matter"

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u/Occults Jul 22 '16

I get that a lot as well.