ramenshaman

That's shitty my dude.

Thanks, never seen that one

But why is there a picture of the back of some dude's neck?

He'll fit right in.

I would've never considered being mean about any of those kinds of things, maybe I'm just strange.

Not strange, just good :)

Agreed 100%. Unfortunately the people who need to read this are not on Lemmy.

5-10% of people have diabetes. Globally, 6.3% of people have type 2 and in the US 11.6% of people have it (had no idea it was that many but I'm not surprised). Type 2 can be typically be managed by oral meds, diet, and exercise. In the US, 0.5% of people have type 1 and require insulin to live, globally that's about 0.1%.

I don't personally find most physical things that important, like a goddamn Pixar movie

Not totally sure where Pixar come into play here but a lot of people do find physical things important. People who have type 1 either care about it or they go blind, lose a foot, or die. They generally don't go around talking to people about their diabetes.

As far as kids go, at least when I was growing up, they are fucking brutal. In 1st and 2nd grade I had a lazy eye which was corrected by glasses and an eye patch (not the cool pirate kind, it was a skin-colored sticker) and I got teased quite a bit. Insulin pumps didn't exist back then, I would imagine little kids with insulin pumps today get teased at most schools. Pretty good chance a T1D Barbie will make a difference to a lot of those kids.

Time to disable automatic updates.

I'm guessing there aren't a lot of people who would know that you have ADHD unless you tell them. Everyone walking behind me can tell I have T1D because my CGM and pump are clearly visible. People tend to identify with things that are so intertwined with their personal lives and that they are forced to spend so much time thinking about.

I don't know wtf is going on anymore. There's just so much.

Proud of my state. Ashamed of my country.