Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
It's always fun to get a different take on things. You sit for years a few rows up from first base and then one day you decide to go sit out by left field. Who knew the game could look so different?
Or maybe a friend pokes you and points at a person in the crowd, "Hey, he looks like you!" Intrigued, you look at the stranger and think in quick succession, "He doesn't look like me. Well, he doesn't look that much like me. Hey, so that's what I look like!"
That's why it has always been interesting for me to check in with friends or family members who know that I have type 2 and ask them what it looks like from their vantage. Their answers have often contained some misconceptions. Here are the most common ones I've heard over the years:
http://diabeteshealth.com/read/2013/11/03/8042/life-with-type-2-how-non-diabetic-others-see-us--/
Or maybe a friend pokes you and points at a person in the crowd, "Hey, he looks like you!" Intrigued, you look at the stranger and think in quick succession, "He doesn't look like me. Well, he doesn't look that much like me. Hey, so that's what I look like!"
That's why it has always been interesting for me to check in with friends or family members who know that I have type 2 and ask them what it looks like from their vantage. Their answers have often contained some misconceptions. Here are the most common ones I've heard over the years:
http://diabeteshealth.com/read/2013/11/03/8042/life-with-type-2-how-non-diabetic-others-see-us--/