This is Adrian's story of living with Type 1 Diabetes. Here he discusses the impact stigma can have on people living with diabetes and some of the ways it presents.
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I would find stigma is quite a strong you know stigma is it's really only stigma if it if it if it affects or offends or upsets the victim but certainly and it was referred to earlier on when we were talking to Maggie people type one do do get annoyed because it you know it is unequivocally not your fault and the main view out there is that you get diabetes from eating the wrong things. There was a row about two years ago when Paul Hollywood during Bake Off referred to one of the cakes as he said oh my god that looks like diabetes on a plate and poor man got... it was a bit of humor really, but he got absolutely slated for it and did actually have to apologize. So yeah, there's a lot of inappropriate humor about there, you know, and people do still tend to say... Oh, if I eat that lot, I'll end up with diabetes. That... I don't find that hurtful. I just find that mildly annoying really. But yeah, it is out there and as Maggie was saying, you know, it doesn't even apply to type two. It's a lot more complicated than that.
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