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Sticks and stones

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Davein

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A 'snowflake' rant🙂
I don't really like being called 'a diabetic'.by healthcare staff

We don't refer to MPs as politics they're known as politicians,
electrians are not referred to as electrics,
musicians are not musics
Olympians are not olympics.
We no longer refer to someone with a mental illness as a lunatic
Lesbians aren't called lesbics

So why can't I be referred to as a diabetian ?🙂

Don't mind 'Diabetes', it does sound like a character out of I.Claudius but then again so does Chlamydia and Herpes 🙂

You'd have thought that having a lifelong illness/condition they could have at least named us something more appealing.
 
You may like the ‘Language Matters’ initiative, which addresses some of these challenges.

These days my default tends to be ‘person with diabetes’

Person first. Diabetes as just a part. One aspect. But certainly not enough to be a single noun which defines me.

To be honest, I am not particularly troubled by ‘diabetic’, especially where it is an adjective. But nouning in general is best avoided I think.
 
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.

William Shakespeare.
 
I rather like "Prickies".
 
trophywench said:
Well electricians are Sparkies, and bricklayers are Brickies.

Thinks ..............................................

Perhaps we should be called Jabbas - if not Prickies???????
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That reminds me of the good old days when nurses approaching you with a 3 inch long hypodermic needle would quietly say 'just a small prick' Always made me laugh as it was slang for something else but nowadays they say 'just a little scratch'
 
Davein said:
That reminds me of the good old days when nurses approaching you with a 3 inch long hypodermic needle would quietly say 'just a small prick' Always made me laugh as it was slang for something else but nowadays they say 'just a little scratch'
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Like Minds lol
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
You may like the ‘Language Matters’ initiative, which addresses some of these challenges.

These days my default tends to be ‘person with diabetes’

Person first. Diabetes as just a part. One aspect. But certainly not enough to be a single noun which defines me.

To be honest, I am not particularly troubled by ‘diabetic’, especially where it is an adjective. But nouning in general is best avoided I think.
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Exactly this. I am diabetic. I am not a diabetic.
 
Like everydayupsanddowns I don't mind the word diabetic, but I do rather like 'diabetian' 🙂 sounds like a ravening horde from the dark ages - the Diabetians are coming, run!
 
It's not going to change now and it doesn't really bother me using 'diabetic' but since entering middle age 😱 if I'm telling someone I usually preface it and say Type 1 diabetic.
 
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