Day 2: We, The Undersigned - Tuesday 5/14
Recently various petitions have been circulating the Diabetes Online Community, so today let’s pretend to write our own. Tell us who you would write the petition to – a person, an organization, even an object (animate or inanimate) - get creative!! What are you trying to change and what have you experienced that makes you want this change?
I would like to write a petition to the TV and commercial providers/producers for TV stations everywhere. Get your facts straight. Type 1, Type 2, Gestational and Pre-Diabetes are not. I repeat: ARE NOT the same disease. You can no longer state that a character on the show has diabetes, and they got it from (insert your own stereotypical version of an explanation here).
It may seem like a little, insignificant thing, but really? Annoys the CRAP out of me! The whole time I get angry at the show, saying, no, NO that is NOT how it works! STUPID! WRONG! TRY AGAIN! NOPE! And sometimes is later commented on by friends -
"Hey did you see that show last night? They had a diabetic on it. So, you, like, can't eat sugar, like, ever, or you'll go into a coma or even DIE?!?!?!?!"
Insert a huge eye-roll and groan from yours truly right here, followed by (usually) the Reader's Digest version of the show's inaccuracies.
That pretty much sums up what I would write a petition about and to! In the infamous words of Danny Gladstone from Full House, Cut. It. Ouuuut.
-LD
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