#Know if You Have Diabetes

[soadscrawl]

that post i just reblogged actually reminded me but if u ever see me drawing this box on lances hip and ur like wtf is that its his insulin pump hehe haha

[swagging-back-to]

it is not controversial to say that if you cannot finacially, emotionally provide for a child and/or your genetics would lead to them suffering then you should not have said child.

[moonspirit]

Papamin Propaganda #6:

[A regular conversation between Armin and his daughter on a breezy spring day]

Smol baby girl: Papa, how come you never change your hairstyle? Uncle Jean and Uncle Reiner all look so different from the old photographs, but why didn't you change it?

Armin: Well, your mother likes it better this way. It looked different, some years ago. It was parted in the middle, but I changed it back to this one.

Smol baby girl: Is that when the Great Divorce of 857 happened?

Armin (laughing): Who told you that?

Smol baby girl: Mom did.

Armin: Well... She can be a little dramatic sometimes.

Smol baby girl: Mom says you're the dramatic one, not her.

Armin (smiling): I guess I'm going to have to take that up with her then.

Smol baby girl: Are you going to fight again?

Armin: Maybe. But we always end up talking things out.

Smol baby girl: Papa, why does mom always press on this? (Leans forward and pokes his adam's apple)

Armin (laughing again): I think she just really likes to do it, that's all.

Smol baby girl: (violently poking and prodding at his throat)

Armin: What, do you like it too?

Smol baby girl: I think so. It's so... Pr..protru...

Armin: Protruding?

Smol baby girl: Yep!

Armin: (gives her a tight bear hug and she squeals in happiness)

Smol baby girl: Papa, how come you have so many scratches on your back?

Armin (now panicking): Alright, that's enough picnic for today!

[Later that night, in their bedroom after their daughter is asleep]

Armin (innocently): ... So she asked me today why there's so many scratches on my back.

Annie (almost inhaling her glass of water): What? When did she see that?

Armin (shrugging): Don't know. Maybe yesterday morning when she wanted me to teach her a word in her book. I was getting dressed, I think.

Annie: ...

Armin (now grinning): I didn't tell her it was all her mom's work.

Annie (blushing and scowling): Hey!

Armin (starting to laugh): You're so cute, Annie. And our daughter's just the same.

[guiltiest-gear]

A 40 year old trans milf is willing to be your sugar mommy, and even pay for you to get slime HTR, the downside is that her sex playlist is nothing but Imagine Dragons, do you accept

Look here, if I'm getting that slime HRT, completely free ride, I'll fucking have the sex playlist be nothing but Lemon Demon's "Two Trucks Having Sex" for 12 hours straight

I'll get freaky with her if it means she's paying, the freak level: ∞ is there for a reason

The freak train stops for nothing if it means getting that sweet fucking slime HRT, I need that fucking shapeshifting and the ability to experiment on "willing" "men", you have no fucking idea

[t1d-culture-is]

T1D culture is...

people asking acquaintances/partner(s)/family about diabetes, instead of asking the person who has it.

[roguestorm]

I think how mutations affect your life/personality definitely depends on when they manifest. If we’re talking about visible mutations, then someone like Kurt, who’s been blue since birth, is going to have a different experience than someone like Glob, who turned pink as a teenager. And while Hank is a weird case for a couple of reasons (again, he chose to do that), he experienced puberty, an awareness of his mutation, and an awareness of anti-mutant hatred all while still being able to pass as human with little effort. Developing a visible mutation later in life requires having to question all these things you thought you knew and your established perception of yourself. But having a visible mutation since birth might mean missing out on many of the traditions and typical events of childhood, which might lead to a strange perception of yourself (although Kurt seems remarkably well-adjusted). And developing a visible mutation during puberty means that in this transitional time in your life, you suddenly go from “normal” to “not normal” in a way that you have to confront all at once. I don’t think any one experience is necessarily hardest, I just think that each one would have different consequences for how you think about yourself and your body and your status as a mutant.

[thel1ghtningthief]

if youre not diabetic and make diabetes jokes i want you dead. btw

[the-acid-pear]

Honestly if you're of the belief Dave is some sort of reptile or adjacent creature the fact that he adopted a reptile and named him after Henry and then an amphibian and named it after Jack is... Makes me a little emotional.

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

every few months I'll read something that makes me utterly terrified that I have diabetes and then have to spend hours telling myself that if I did I would have actual symptoms

[aromantyczno-liryczna]

Guess who has a vitamin d deficiency 🙂🙂🙂

[cherrysfeelings]

My honest reaction when I see that my dad is eating his 2nd tangerine of the day (He's diabetic and also suffers from diverticulitis)

[theinfinitedivides]

the mf*cker f*cking came to Thailand for her girl if you don't snatch him up right now—

[weareweirdpeople]

Oh god why the physical discomfort is happening again. Why is it so tiring to walk or do anything. No matter how much I sleep, I'm still tired. I manage my diabetes well. Why does my body just make existing feel bad.

[thatonceandfutureprat]

Me in 2021:

Me now:

I've been on a closed loop system since 2022 and it's the first thing that's actually worked to get my blood glucose down permanently.

(I use the Dexcom/Tandem T:slim system)

I gifted myself an Apple Watch last year to track my health better, but it also allows me to show my blood glucose on the screen. Which is an oddly sentimental element, because when I was 6 and first diagnosed with Type 1 my grandmother said: "One day you'll be able to see your blood glucose on a watch, you mark my words!"

It might not be quite what either of us imagined, but hey gramma, I can see it on my watch now :')

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

To the geniuses who design blood glucose monitors,

if you're gonna design a product that runs on button cell batteries that only come in safety packaging, for the love of all that is good in this world, don't just stop at making the battery compartment spring loaded. Include a battery status monitor that gives a warning before someone needs to get their fasting blood sugar and has potentially already stabbed themselves and wasted a test strip.

Just a little beep after the last viable test will do.

Yes, I know CGMs exist. They are, at the time of writing, not accurate enough to do away with their predecessors unless someone is only diabetic and taking only diabetes medication. And 35 bucks a week. And defeated by bluetooth errors.

Kind regards, Massive side eye,

Done with this shit

[here-there-were-dragons]

as a general rule, on average, if americans consistently complain about a food being conceptually weird, gross, and scary, then it probably tastes amazing. or at least inoffensive.

this is because in my experience americans for the most part (give or take a few exceptions by region) think eating literally anything other than beef, chicken, bread, eggs, peanut butter jelly sandwitches, ketchup, and disgusting cloyingly artificial brown sludge soda is insurmountably weird, gross, and scary.