What NOT to say to the parent of a Type 1 Diabetic

[emmajessifyX]

Some people are such thick shits. :)

sincerely,

a type 1 diabetic

ps. Halle Berry is a dick 'ed. :)

[jennerw97]

My daughter is not Cat Woman! LOL. I'm a diabetic (type 1) and people say these things to me all the time. Once this idiot girl at my school was talking about how it's not really that hard to get rid of diabetes, even thought it is. Those were her exact words. She said that. To me. She knows I am diabetic.

[GoodParentsGoodkids]

Perfect for the white guy to play the dumb role and make all those dumb comments in this video.

[Syked101]

brilliant



[amaris8253]

people are so dumb! haha

[JoeAdamJonasFan19]

haha this was hilarious. i was diagnosed with diabetes at 3 months old, the woman really reminded me of my mother, sarcastic and sassy xD

[Makkajakka]

"My daughter is not allowed to eat two things: Poison, and Cookies... laced with Poison" - best line

[packerschick777]

Ok so we're talking statistics and the rarity of this disease, right? Yes, type1 is much more rare than type2 in Americans, however both my husband and 2yo son are type1 diabetic. Should I be going to play the lottery or something?

[kb154]

OMG that is so true!!! Sadly there are an awful lot of people out there who have no idea about diabetes!!!!

[loldude83]

I don't have diabetes, and I know about it, but thinking that every person will know all about a rare health condition just because your child has it is beyond ridiculous.

If my son had Ectrodactyly and I met someone who asked if he had problems with fine motor skill activities, such as video games, I suddenly wouldn't be an asshole if I responded with some smartass remark and called him stupid?

Get off your high horse, no one should be expected to know all about everyone else's problems.

[ambermwild100]

Diabetes isn't a rare health condition. As a parent of a type 1 diabetic I have people come up to me and say stupid things everyday. I try my best to educate them and let it go. I knew nothing about diabetes before my 4 year old was diagnosed. But what's annoying is when people tell my daughter that she will lose her leg or go blind. I don't expect people to not ask questions but I don't care for unsolicited advice from strangers, especially when it hurts my daughter.

[loldude83]

@ambermwild100 8-17 out of 100,000 in the US isn't rare? A 0.00001 chance isn't rare?

Getting struck by lightning is 0.00003.

You are more likely to get struck by lightning than have type 1 diabetes.

What the hell do you consider rare?

I'm not seeing how some random person saying the completely possible effects of having diabetes, if she doesn't take care of herself, is hurting her.

You can very easily die if you have type 1 diabetes, going blind or losing limbs is the least of her worries.

[ambermwild100]

@loldude83 Here's a question for you....do you go up to people who have cancer and inform them that they could die if they don't take care of themselves? The thing is, I don't think you do. I don't even think you would go up to my 6 year old and tell her that. Why would you? My daughter almost died when she was first diagnosed, I know EVERYTHING that CAN happen to her, I live it every second of my life and so does she. So why assume that we don't already know that?

[ambermwild100]

@loldude83 I pray that you never experience the hell that we have, I pray that you never have a child with any life theatening illness, I pray that the next time you see a diabetic child or a mother of a diabetic child you show them kindness knowing that what they are going through is beyond anything that you can imagine. Your numbers are incorrect but you already know that. My question is why spread all this hate? What do you get out of it? I hope you learn from this, if anything at all.

[polyxenophile]

@loldude83 If you want to ask us legitimate questions, go right ahead. Most of us will be more than happy to educate you. But we don't need you to educate us. WE've got the 'betus. WE've dealt with the fire-burn of Lantus and the pain of a misplaced injection and the vomit of ketones. We know the consequences of poor management. We've been through it with our pediatricians/endocrinologists­/nurses/dieticians/clinicians.­We've pretty much got it down. We don't need your help.

[InsulinStinks]

@polyxenophile great response... =)

[InsulinStinks]

@loldude83 go troll a different video dude... seriously that was probably the dumbest response I've ever read... you are probably one of those busy body nosey people who say these sorts of dumb things to people... "oh you have aids?? did you know you can die?!?!"

[InsulinStinks]

@loldude83 it's not the fact that someone doesn't know about it... it's the opposite actually... when they think they are the all-knowing diabetic police. Again... no one would ever go up to someone with cancer or aids and forewarn them of their impending death.

[twodoortwo]

The problem is that type 1 and type 2 diabetes have similar symptoms, they are two totally different diseases, and one of them should be renamed. Since 95% of all diabetics are type 2, much of the ignorance of type 1 comes from that. So few people understand what type 1 is really all about, and the fact that it's an autoimmune disease, not a disease of insulin inefficiency.

[InsulinStinks]

@twodoortwo SO true!! We should all come together to have it renamed!!!

[Pamerela]

marvelous! Well said! People can be so ignorant and ill informed!

[polyxenophile]

"You are right. It would be so much better if they died a slow, painful death."

I love this line!

[2Cute949]

"I saw you checking your daughter's blood sugar, does she have diabetes?"

hahhahhah.. No. Shit. :P

[futonrevolution]

I hate being told "I hope you get better soon," so very, very, very much. Thank you for including that one!

I've been asked a lot about medical marijuana a lot, recently, and if it would make my symptoms easier to handle; I haven't come up with a properly snippy response that will make them stop bothering me about it, unfortunately.

[jojossslovekidd]

Gosh this is claaaassicccccccc!!!! :D i loveee it! :)

"i used to pour sugar down her throat just for fun" bahaha!<3

Gosh i hate theese suupid quesstions i get at school,

Duummys! <3 i love being diabetic<3

[Potatosaremyfriends1]

Halle Berry is Catwoman. Catwoman can do anything... My daughter is not Catwoman.

[olduser71]

While I didn't fall off the couch laughing, I am always amazed at the questions that are asked. If I feel that the person wishes to be I educated about the disease, I will share what I know and what my experiences have been having it for the last 28 years. Otherwise - raspberries to them.

[distastefulreverie]

hilarious.

[CalebEatsPIe]

AHA THERE IS A CURE FOR STUPID! Put a Gun Up to your ear pull the trigger and the stupid comes out

[Coolzmeister]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

[allthosestars]

top 5 things said to me about my diabetes

1 ( me and my friend on the phone ) i'm eating ice crream friend says ... SORRYYY

2 CAN YOU EAT THIS IT HAS SUGAR

3 wow u must be bored on haloween

4 ( during clas handing out timbits ) sheputs one on my desk oh i'm sorry you can't have one right

last

5 oh do you have the bad kind of diabetes ??

[diabetes4life24]

ahah i get these ALL THE TIME. a few good ones:

oh you have diabetes? oh so you can't eat sugar then right?

but wait, you're not fat!

can you eat this? cause it has sugar in it....

and my favorite:

oh that sucks...yeah my (insert family member here) had that. Then she got an amputation and went blind...

i realize the last one was mentioned in the video but its so annoying i had to say it again.

[TypeOneDiabeticc]

@diabetes4life24 i hate when people talk about the people they know who had diabetes and they tell you everything that went wrong! are you T1?

[diabetes4life24]

@TypeOneDiabeticc yeah im type 1

[jojossslovekidd]

@TypeOneDiabeticc omg i know im like dude can you just stfu! hahaha(:

[TypeOneDiabeticc]

@jojossslovekidd haha i know... but i do like looking up the things that people say... it cracks me up :)

[typicalAT1]

@diabetes4life24 My favorite has always been "... but you don't look diabetic" 

[abdcgirl13]

my little sister was diagnosed with type one last year and i swear i don't know how many times i've heard "she'll grow out of it" or "my ~insert random family member here~ had diabetes and theirs went away."  imma start saying poison or cookies... made with poison when people ask what she can't have. this made my day!!!

[fidosaur]

aww this is so funny :D

the sad thing is that people have actually asked me if it was bad that i had diabetes, tell me stories of their friends getting amputations due to diabetes, try to tell me what to eat when they dont know crap about what i can and cant eat, say "i could NEVER deal with diabetes", and a lot of other stupid stuff. -.- its sickening...

[2Cute949]

This guy is so stupid i have diabetes and i laughed my head off

[lottie141516]

POISEN. and cookies... made with poisen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love you.

i almost peed myself.

but my blood sugars high, and i have to pee bad already so it was bound to happen any second anyways hahaha

[xxJodiexx1000]

I'm a type 1 diabetic, and I'm doing a campaign on diabetes with my group in my class and I'm going to show everybody this because it's so freakin' hilarious :D!!!

[alportT1]

LOVE this as a T1 for 28 years and with a son who´s had T1 for almost 3 years. Heard it all and a hundred more

[KayStyLynn]

FREAKING HILARIOUS!!!



[WantSpice]

The people who disliked this obviously love eating poison cookies.

[Garethwam]

wakakakakakakakakaka!!!!! i wish answering people like that could always be so easy.... lol, i love this video, very well done... keep up the good work... even if your diabetic, life can be sweet

[diabeetisboi]

Ok this video suckkkkksssss. I've never heard these before haha. I dont feed her cookies with poison. So dumb. Use real voices. One time my friend grabbed my apple and took a bite out of it and I told him it's contagious and a year later he was diagnosed bahahaha

[d103cc]

@diabeetisboi you sound like a very nice person. I will let you know when there is a cure for the stupids.

[Morbicity]

people used to ask me if it was contagious i used to grab them by the hand give an evil smile and tell them they'd find out on monday

[3Rnews1]

As a mother of a son with Type 1 diabetes, here are a couple more that I've dealt with: "Die-abetes? That means he's going to die, right?" and "He's going to get better, isn't he?" And we get the "My grandma had diabetes..." statement ALL the time.

[danman2771]

OMG LOLOLOLOLOLOL So funny! One time some1 asked me if i had type 7 diabetes

[JasonLeonPike]

This is great and tragic. So hard to explain the T1 life.

[littleelmo24]

omfg probably funniest thing ive ever seen. and i get asked these things all the time and its the most annoying thing ever.

yes we can eat candy.

[lazydonkey07]

Some of his comments people have said to me. lol.

this makes me laugh!

"my grandma had the bad kind." I had no idea there was a bad kind....

[howmucheethis]

my daughter is 3 years old and was recently diagnosed with type one diabetes. I have heard all sorts of nonsense from people about cures for diabetes. My favorite is controlling type one with diet and exercise which would eliminate the need for insulin which could be true if we were discussing type 2 diabetes. My other favorite is when people tell me I should be happy and it could be worse because at least I still have my daughter, wow thanks for that bit of logic.

[howmucheethis]

my daughter is 3 years old and was recently diagnosed with type one diabetes. I have heard all sorts of nonsense from people about cures for diabetes. My favorite is controlling type one with diet and exercise which would eliminate the need for insulin which could be true if we were discussing type 2 diabetes. My other favorite is when people tell me I should be happy and it could be worse because at least I still have my daughter, wow thanks for that bit of logic.

[2012twilightaddict]

@Khepritachiquita i thought it said "Poison and cookies...mainly poison" ??? just wondering

[bryanvgr]

This is great! It is a fanstastic reminder for us to use humor as a tool. I will be using a few of the responses next time I am questioned by someone who has the 'stupids'.

I have heard the 'i could never do that' comment several times.'.

[saparsons66]

LLLLLOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVEEEEEEE IT! It says all things I WISH I could say when people ask me these things!

[tosol09]

hahhah excellent video, I think the last part shows exactly what somebody with diabetes or relatives thinks in those cases.

[brbplayingminecraft]

yep, hear these things all the time. i will share!!!!!

[dejahthoris]

I have watched this like four times, gives me the comic relief I need !!!!!!!!!!!!

[MEGHEADASAURAUS]

Hahaha, I'm a Type 1 Diabetic, and I get asked stupid things like this all the time. This is gr8.

[fightintexasag10]

@diabetech Dr. Ponder is my hero. He is a specacular man and role model.

[Diabetech]

i heard about this from Dr. Ponder, a pediatric endocrinologist, in his weekly column in the Caller Times

[MrRoguez10]

Very nice put together, My daughter was diagnosed 1 year after this video was posted, at 16 months old. We do get this kind of stupid comment once in a while.

[MsTuppakaka]

Love it!

[fightintexasag10]

This makes my heart smile every time I see it. And sad about just how ignorant people are about type 1 (the real diabetes)

I hate when people tell me, why don't you just loose weight and cure yourself, or oh, but you don't look sick.

[dejahthoris]

@fightintexasag10 I had a case of the stupids. Until my son was dx Aug 2010 with type 1. I was less than stupid and did not know jack about it. Now I have stacks of books and info- its my life.

[EMCTB]

I showed this to my mom and dad and they couldn't stop laughing at the "poison and cookies... made with poison" personally, my favorite part is the "I hope she gets better soon"

[badwound]

omg I couldn't stop laughing and people really do say those really stupid stuff all I can do is look at them with r u serious want to hand them here is ur sign

[TERESA1R]

NO CURE FOR STUPIDITY!!!

[MsLovinGod]

This is great! There are a lot of people with the case of the stupids that love to tell me the horrible things that happened to people they know with diabetes. My son was diagnosed less than a year ago at age 5. This video made me laugh..could definitely relate.

[yoninarose]

Brilliant! My son is a diabetic for less than a week and I've already heard some of these stupid comments

[conovaloff]

Brilliant!! I can't tell you how often I've complained about what thoughtless comments people will make. I'm a type one diabetic and have heard all of these! Thanks for bringing a smile!

[puppilove1996]

Stupidest thing someone ever asked me (teenager with type 1) was "is it contagious? Because if it is I don't want to be near you"

[jmarietj]

@puppilove1996 oh my gosh. tell me about it. thats what all my friends said to me and i had litterally walk away to keep from slapping them.

[trollywoodstudios]

I love this sooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!!!!

[joeyjojo96]

HAHA This makes me and my mom laugh so hard!! lol! I have type one diabetes and i get people asking wierd questions like this!! haha

[Klunk234]

Am I the only 13 year old who really doesn't care about their diabetes?? I mean I check my sugar and inject myself but it doesn't bother me. =/

[Klunk234]

@tiagodesteves Yep.

[helpmefred12]

@Klunk234 Sorry, I was signed in under a different (wrong) user ... If you have type 1, you need to be aware that the choices you make now at 13 will have an impact later on as you get older ... If your A1c number are good and you're eating well, you should be okay but if not, you should worry ... that's why we (parents of type 1 kids) care so much about diabetes ... we want to make sure that our kids grow up healthy :^)

[Klunk234]

@helpmefred12 True.

[jtlsdream]

Thank you !! We can't stop quoting your answers. How many times I wanted to say these exact things to people. I also love when we are asked "Well, at least he will out grow it" or "You have sugar, My mom has sugar too". I so want to answer, "Yes, the sugar is in the canister at home. "

Anyway, thanks again !!

[CastingPods]

‘if I hear anything about a cure for the stupids, I’ll let you know’. Lmao!

[MrsSX1]

My nephew has type 1 diabetes...... I'm going to see if I can get hold of some of that moss!!!!!! LOL

[louqld]

sad but oh so true :/ well made !

[Purplemilly]

That was brilliant!!!!! i have had type 1 since I was five and I have had to deal with these comments all my life!!!! What fantastic responses. I think I'm going to put them on a card so I have them handy next time they come up. The best one I had was a passionate vegan telling me that a total raw food diet would cure me, it had cured somebody in America. If only!!!

[Deannab2003]

WOW!  Good for you!!

[wafaa5575]

Lol, they live among us. I had to go through all of this. Some used to make me feel that I do not desrve to be a mom specially when my daughter asks for a cookie and I agree.

[Caghs]

@wafaa5575 Oh you horrible horrible mother, letting her have a cookie; it would be far better if you deprived your child of everything that a child enjoys. You could also lock her in her room while you're at it, and take away all her coloured pencils. (That's sarcasm, BTW). People like that bug me; there's no reason a diabetic child can't have treats like any other child, it's just a matter of moderation and balance, and people should just butt out and let mothers do the mother thing :)

[gracelistens]

perfect.

[CureType1Diabetes]

Encore, encore! Applause!

[BroadwayBoy1022]

"Actually, I used to pour sugar down her throat, just for the fun of it."

AMAZING, I, a diabetic, and my mother laughed very hard watching this.

[kidsmakes6]

Oh gad!! LOL I was laughing so hard I almost wet myself. LOL Ain't it the truth?!? "That was such a nice thing to share with me in front of my child" Like stupidity.....

[fosterjpchs]

Awesome video! I think I've had all these things said to me!! Except for the Halle Berry thing. :)

[despereaux82xo]

i loveee this vidddeoo lol i have type one diabetes

[asilverhorn]

Yes, thanks for sharing that with me in front of my child.  I love it, thanks for this video!

[rubberduck625]

That was the best rendition of stupid, ignorant people ever!

[bangintowall]

I love this. It makes me realise I'm not the only type one diabetic out there that gets this sort of reaction from people!! :)

[laurakaiser70]

I'm a T1 and I LOVE you and I LOVE this video. Thanks for creating and posting!

[bartonjz96]

THATS AMAZING ahahhahh

[gannyFushigi]

"You are right, it would be so much better if they died a slow and painful death." wooooow....

[bernfarr]

If anyone else knows about that cure...for the stupid, I'd like some of it too.

[HamishMNorton]

Great giggle.

There is great scope for more just like it.

[Khepritachiquita]

"Poison. And cookies...made with poison."

[Bev212]

brilliant



[LoriCummings]

Thank you for sharing!! I have a daughter that was dx'd 8+ yrs ago.

[fefe1234567892187]

Thank you for my morning smile. How awesome!