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FUCK YES HANNAH KEEP AT IT!!!! FUCKING DISCRIMINATORS!
Hi there. My Name is Hannah.
You’re probably wondering what this is about, why I’m holding up this sheet of paper stating I’m human too. It’s not because I have a different racial background to my peers, it’s not because of my sexuality and it’s not about the way I dress and behave in public and at home. It’s because I’m Diabetic.
Since being diagnosed in 2003 with Type 1 diabetes, though primarily now that I have hit my teens, it has come to my attention I can no longer take my medication without getting some unsavoury stares from other people. I’ve also realised that I will also get some unpolite questions and remarks from those who don’t realise a few things about having diabetes, so let me clear a few things up for you.
- I am not obese, when diagnosed I was seriously underweight.
- I can still have sugar, eating cake in front of me in a way that’s supposed to make me jealous will result in me wanting to punch you.
- There’s a possibility that if I don’t control my blood sugar that I will go blind and/or I will lose a limb.
- It isn’t funny when I have a fit and/or slump over due to a low blood sugar, no matter how much I resemble a drunk.
- Just because I carry needles round with me 24/7 does not mean I am a drug addict, I need the Insulin to survive.
That brings me to my point of this whole blogpost. No matter where I go to inject my medication I come under some form of abuse, whether it is verbal or just the way someone looks at me. The looks are the most common, people of all ages looking down on me when I inject because they believe I’m doing illegal drugs. If I was doing illegal drugs do you really think I would do it out in the open?
And then there’s the comments.
I’ve been thrown out of a restaurant before because of my medication, the waiter who saw me initially thinking it was illegal drugs, alerting the manager who then threw me out and said he didn’t want my kind in his restaurant. He didn’t believe I was diabetic even when I showed him the necklace I got from the NHS to say that I had a medical condition.
Can you see what I’m getting at?
I’m human too. Can you please treat me like one.
All of this. I wish this whole statement was made when I was in 6th grade. Because of my teacher not allowing me all the...