Do you have diabetes or are you a dia...

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Do you have diabetes or are you a dia...
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Tue, 07-29-2008 - 8:01am

Do you have diabetes or are you a diabetic?



  • I have diabetes.
  • I am a diabetic.


You will be able to change your vote.



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Tue, 07-29-2008 - 8:06am

Since Sue brought the semantics into the other poll...


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Tue, 07-29-2008 - 9:21am

For simplicity sake, when I need to clarify something to someone else, I'll say I'm diabetic but I don't think of myself AS diabetic, I have diabetes. Yes, semantics, but it's in the same lines as saying I *can* eat whatever I want, but some things are not my best choice. It's about me being in control of the situation not the other way around.

--Deb

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Registered: 07-10-2003
Tue, 07-29-2008 - 7:50pm

Think I much prefer to define myself more by my interests!

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Tue, 07-29-2008 - 8:12pm

ummmmm so Nancy,


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Registered: 07-10-2003
Tue, 07-29-2008 - 8:25pm

Yep!!

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Sat, 08-02-2008 - 12:35am
I am a diabetic. Just like I'm a daughter, a sister, a friend. I have a car, a house, a green shirt, a computer. The things I have, I chose to have, the things I am, I just am. And that's the way I see it.