Happy Dia-versary..

[Travelfairy]

Just saw this on FB, a former classmate wishing his son a happy dia-versary on the anniversary of getting diagnosed with diabetes....

Like is it just me it is this weird/inappropriate/cringe....

YABU- she's celebrating her son
YANBU- she shouldn't be posting about his personal medical information, its weird and not everything needs a # 🙄🙄

Er yeah, as a T1D I find it a very weird thing to announce. I do however, know when mine is, mainly because it’s time to have to do the annual
diabetic check up! Again not something to celebrate.

As a t1d, its a normalish thing. Its one year extra we had, without insulin we’d be dead so…

A friend posts similar about her DS. I've always found it odd

As a T1 diabetic it’s a pretty usual thing to see in the community. Celebrating x number of years of managing to control/live with/thrive with a pretty shitty condition. One way some find helpful to deal with their situation, isn’t harming anyone and doesn’t need judgement. I generally mark mine with (appropriately bolused for) cake.

Unless your a type one diabetic you wouldn’t get it, so keep your opinion to yourself

Having a ‘pretty shitty condition’ myself, believe me, the last thing I want to do is celebrate being diagnosed with it. I would celebrate curing it. But that isn’t going to happen. Still each to their own.

I don't understand why you'd celebrate having a shitty condition of which I have a few

I bet your pretty shitty condition doesnt try to kill you mutiple times a day and requires non-stop decision making literally every hour of the day, till the day you die.
Its literally constant.
I wouldnt wish type one diabetes on anyone and its clear a lot of people have no fucking clue what goes into taking care of it.

He or she OP?

I'm confused?

Im celebrating im still alive, not that I have diabetes. 😂

It's tongue in cheek. Celebrating survival with a condition that until 100 years ago had an absolute mortality rate.

Let’s not get into that.

I was never wished 'Happy Flatu-versity' when I had a spectacular bout of wind - not even from the pharmacist who issued me with his entire stock of Wind-eze tablets and four free aerosols of Neutradol.☹️

I celebrate the fact that I am survived another year of my body trying to kill me.

I celebrate that we have excellent access to insulin in the country so that diabetes isn’t the death sentence it once was and still is for some.

I celebrate that I manage to make the hundreds of little decisions each day that are necessary to keep myself healthy.

I celebrate that research means that diabetes management is improving year on year.

I celebrate that other research means we seem to be getting close to a cure for type one. Most likely too late for me but incredible for those who come after.

I celebrate that that I live with diabetes and work bloody hard to do so.

I celebrate that a silver lining of this horrible illness is the incredible diabetes community that I have met along the way and the mutual support that comes with it.

So yes, I and many other like to mark ‘diaversaries’ - if you don’t want to, or don’t care just walk on by. We experience plenty of judgement and misconceptions about diabetes everyday, so if people want to make more judgement based on people being different then crack on.

My partner has T1D and he raised an eyebrow at celebrating diagnosis. Each to their own, though!

Absolute no need.

The only thing I find weird/inappropriate/cringe.... is to have random people as "friends" on social media when they are only there to gossip and moan about them

💯 my daughter was diagnosed at 3. We’ve always marked the occasion and we have cake 🍰 😂

She sorry 🙈 i didnt get much sleep last night with my ND child...and no we dont celebrate a neuro birthday here 😂🙈

Do you post it all on SM though? With a lengthly detailed post about his condition. He is 10. I dont know if he'll be comfortable about this in years to come....

Youve clearly not seen diabetic diamond on tiktok who documents the life of her 3 t1d kids if your bitching about one little facebook status.
Is she even your friend or do you just keep her there to bitch behind her back?

So weird i couldn't even tell you the date of all the things I have been diagnosed with let alone celebrate anniversaries of them.

Same! And my kids too....

Why doesn't she celebrate the anniversaries of her own diagnosises rather then of her child's private information that he can't consent to

She's a former class mate not a close friend. I'm not bitching about her. I'm opening a discussion do others find it odd/inappropriate which so far 73% do....