I would’ve never considered being mean about any of those kinds of things, maybe I’m just strange.

Not strange, just good :)

Pickles are gross anyway

Edit: I support anybody who wants to buy gross Canadian pickles instead of gross American pickles though.

More.

I was going to say cunt

Agreed 100%. Unfortunately the people who need to read this are not on Lemmy.

5-10% of people have diabetes. Globally, 6.3% of people have type 2 and in the US 11.6% of people have it (had no idea it was that many but I’m not surprised). Type 2 can be typically be managed by oral meds, diet, and exercise. In the US, 0.5% of people have type 1 and require insulin to live, globally that’s about 0.1%.

I don’t personally find most physical things that important, like a goddamn Pixar movie

Not totally sure where Pixar come into play here but a lot of people do find physical things important. People who have type 1 either care about it or they go blind, lose a foot, or die. They generally don’t go around talking to people about their diabetes.

As far as kids go, at least when I was growing up, they are fucking brutal. In 1st and 2nd grade I had a lazy eye which was corrected by glasses and an eye patch (not the cool pirate kind, it was a skin-colored sticker) and I got teased quite a bit. Insulin pumps didn’t exist back then, I would imagine little kids with insulin pumps today get teased at most schools. Pretty good chance a T1D Barbie will make a difference to a lot of those kids.

Time to disable automatic updates.

I can only imagine how hard that would be. I already feel awkward and insecure about the shit going on in my life that feels pretty benign by comparison.

I’m a cis man and I’ve experienced 2, 3, and 9

I’m guessing there aren’t a lot of people who would know that you have ADHD unless you tell them. Everyone walking behind me can tell I have T1D because my CGM and pump are clearly visible. People tend to identify with things that are so intertwined with their personal lives and that they are forced to spend so much time thinking about.

I don’t know wtf is going on anymore. There’s just so much.

I got u

Proud of my state. Ashamed of my country.

Andrew don’t get involved, I’m pretty sure you know better.

But maybe you don’t.

Looks like a hat from Dark Souls

Hey congress. Remember how Canada and Mexico routinely send us help when our fires get really bad? Well?.. Do you not think we should return the very huge favor?

Nobody wants diabetes. Diabetics care about their diabetes because it can easily kill them. Before modern medicine diabetes had a 100% chance of killing you fairly slowly. Little girls (and boys I suppose) who see that there is a T1D barbie now might think that there are other people out there who notice/care. I guarantee you that many children get teased about their pump and or CGM, so the existence of a T1D barbie will help normalize diabetes for them and the people around them.

I don’t think that diabetes is anywhere near an identity thing for most people.

Little girls who have to walk around with an insulin pump will disagree.

There’s a 4th kind. Those who do not use dark mode.

We really are