Encountering stigma around my Diabetes.

I can't say that I have, I've been very lucky throughout my university life through the organisations I've worked in since then, as long as I've made people aware of my condition I've never received any negative treatment or prejudice because of it. I think actually the biggest challenge for a lot of people, and I used to struggle with this, is actually taking that step of making people aware in the first place. And perhaps this links into ideas about why has it come about? Do I really want to go and talk to people and have to give a lecture about what my condition is. But I've always been surprisingly pleased to find how open people are to engaging with it once they are made aware of it. As it happens I now work in an organisation where there are a couple of diabetics who all work within sort of a couple of feeds of each other, so in that culture it's all very easy. But it can be a difficult conversation to have with people and it depends on what sort of, you know, circumstances you're working in. But if you can, I will always advocate people, tell people you work with, tell people who you spend quality time with if they don't know already, and I think most people will be pleasantly surprised at the amount of accommodation they get.