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  • 26-06-2009 06:03PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,006 ✭✭✭✭


    how would you react if you met a girl and she told you she had type 1 diabetes which involves taking about 5 injections daily and monitoring what she eats?? would you make an excuse and run a mile or would you be ok with it?? honost answers only please.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,005 ✭✭✭irelandrover


    It wouldn't bother me at all tbh. One of my best friends has type 1 diabetes so it doesn't bother me. It took me one or two times when we were out to get used to him having to inject himself but I pay no attention to it anymore. If I liked a girl diabetes wouldn't affect any decision.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Dont see a problem with it at all .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    how would you react if you met a girl and she told you she had type 1 diabetes which involves taking about 5 injections daily and monitoring what she eats?? would you make an excuse and run a mile or would you be ok with it?? honost answers only please.

    As long as you're cute.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 907 ✭✭✭AlphaMale 3OO


    Don't see why its a problem?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,057 ✭✭✭kjt


    Wouldn't be a problem in the slightest...!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭sqlpod


    Dont be so shallow Dude!!!. She know's she's a T1 Dybo and has all the stigma that goes with it, you cant catch it off, her even though you may develop it in time without knowing so look into it and treat her as you would normaly, she will know how she has to manage i and in time maybe you can help her.
    So read up and the more you show her you understand, and the more relaxed and comfortable your relationship may become


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,006 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    reason i ask is cause im just out of a long term relationship and the ex was with me when i first got it - so now im thinking if i meet a new guy he'll run a mile if he found out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,178 ✭✭✭Mena


    Don't see how this could ever be an issue for someone, and if it is, run away.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 136 ✭✭draven3410


    Why would you make it an issue? So she has it. Big deal. If you really like her, accept it. It's not as if you can catch it off her. And if do like her and run away from her because of it, it makes you a bad person.:mad: that's my 5cent anyway


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 656 ✭✭✭chickenhawk


    Wouldn't have a problem with it!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    sqlpod wrote: »
    has all the stigma that goes with it,

    Stigma that goes with it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,006 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    Im pretty attracted to the only diabetic girl I know, so my answer is that it makes no difference!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    wouldnt have a problem with it at all at all. Diabetes aint bad at all. Couple injections and watch the diet its not major. If you meet someone who has a problem with it then you should run a mile


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 111 ✭✭scubasteve


    No issue at all. So...... How you doin?;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,006 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    What stigma?
    I wouldnt have the slightest problem with it. Id probably be quiet curious about it at first and then i suppose just get totally used to the idea. No biggy whatsoever!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭An Ard Ri


    cant see a problem myself


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,584 ✭✭✭PCPhoto


    reason i ask is cause im just out of a long term relationship and the ex was with me when i first got it - so now im thinking if i meet a new guy he'll run a mile if he found out.

    the only thing I would suggest is that you dont start with......." Hi !.... I'm (Insert name) and I have Diabetes etc etc" .... not the best of chat up lines anyway.


    to be honest any guy that has a problem with it should be put in a burlap sack and beaten with a bag of doorknobs....and would be a waste of time to be with that type of guy.

    theres nothing wrong with having Diabetes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭sqlpod


    sorry UN REG,did not know you were female, but it goes to show how shallow our society can be, when you have to ask stranger's if they would date you because of a small defect, if they object to you then they have the defect, its called their brain


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 268 ✭✭Adamisconfused


    It wouldn’t be a consideration at all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,815 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    It wouldn’t be a consideration at all.

    Yeah, same here. It wouldn't bother me.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,731 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    There is NO problem here...sure a girl in my class in college has it, and takes insulin injections twice during college hours and nobody bats an eyelid...its a medical condition and has to be taken seriously, you should take heed and think about whether you would be seriously into a relationship if you cant even handle this trivial little bit of information you've been presented with.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭Carsinian Thau


    how would you react if you met a girl and she told you she had type 1 diabetes which involves taking about 5 injections daily and monitoring what she eats?? would you make an excuse and run a mile or would you be ok with it?? honost answers only please.

    I would have no issue with it. But to be honest, I have type 1 diabetes too so it could never be an issue for me. :)

    But from personal experience, it's never been an issue. Your personality is going to be the deciding factor for so much of this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,241 ✭✭✭Auldloon


    She is sitting next to me on her lap top and looking as beautiful as ever:) So no its not an issue for me at all, never has been never will.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭SomeFool


    Mrs somefool is a type 1 diabetic. No issue at all. Anyone that can't see past it is not worth the trouble I think.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭thebiggestjim


    No problem at all, 5% -10% of North Americans are estimated to have it. Thats 28-56 Million people in North America alone.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_1_diabetes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 416 ✭✭ElBarco


    I'm a type 1 diabetic myself (male though!). I wouldn't even give it a thought, it'll come up in conversation before too long and as others have said, if he was to have a problem with it he wouldn't be worth going any further with.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭jdivision


    Don't even worry about it. I only know one diabetic and think she's cute. Asked her about it but that was only curiosity


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭Kevo


    Nope. Wouldn't bother me the slightest bit.
    The way things are going, a very large percentage of the population will have it in the future.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,584 ✭✭✭PCPhoto


    sqlpod wrote: »
    sorry UN REG,did not know you were female, but it goes to show how shallow our society can be, when you have to ask stranger's if they would date you because of a small defect, if they object to you then they have the defect, its called their brain

    its not a defect ... theres nothing wrong with diabetes

    a defect means theres something wrong with the OP ..... sorry if it sounds like I'm on a rant but the tone of your post makes me feel like I have to say this.

    the fact that the OP has to do something on a daily basis doesnt make her less of a person - we all do something on a daily basis (ie. Eat, pooh etc) .... some people NEED to have a cup of tea/coffee in the mornings , the OP NEEDS to inject ...same thing (kinda).

    Personally ... I have a fear (not a phobia) of needles ...so would not like to watch the OP inject - but I have an uncle who does the same - although I dont watch but dont have a problem when he does inject - its part of his life. (I dont watch him inject)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 248 ✭✭sqlpod


    PCPHOTO, guess what ?.
    I have diabetes too, have had for years and i have seen the crap that goes with it when people find out, first reaction is ooohhhh unclean, what did you do to get that!!!, can you catch it from kissing, years ago i was refused a job because they thought i may have an epileptic fit, HELLO Aaagghhhhhh !!!


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