I’m so, so sorry that I gave you diabetes. I thought it was not me but I paid to have that DNA testing service having to do with ancestry run MY DNA and it game back that the lineage of T1D on my side of the family goes back to the days when a guy name Christopher Columbus sailed a few ships and landed somewhere around here.
The testing took some of my DNA (I will keep from where it came to just me, its pretty private) and I paid $3275 and it came back——732 relatives had T1D…..so it’s all my fault.
Sounds a tad unrealistic, don’t you think?
And yet I constantly hear from people who share the guilt of thinking they are at fault or even MUCH MUCH WORSE, some dim-wit relative ‘from the other side’ finds a morsel of information and all of a sudden they are the new authority on who ‘is to blame’ for the mess you are now in with T1D now in your residence.
Absolute POPPYCOCK.
Even if……EVEN IF……you could be absolutely certain (which you cannot) which was the gene pool that got you to where you are………what difference would it make. You would have to then go out and find out what triggered it; of equal importance. Good luck with that also.
Blame.
Pointing figures.
Hidden figures.
Who cares. But what if……what if…….what if……..what if……what if……
Tell them that DiabetesDad said to “SHUT UP”.
Then look at them and share that you are not so sure where the T1D came from but (stare intently now) you sure know EXACTLY where the stupid gene comes from.
It’s okay because I can promise you that we will have a cure for T1D long before we find a cure for stupid.
Having a little fun today to teach this: It does not matter what you discuss on HOW something happened; it matters what you are going to do with it now that it is here. And when someone has an opinion, tell them to put that energy to good use and do something THAT DOES MAKE sense like running a fundraiser for education, help, and/or a cure. That would be better than shooting their mouth off on something they know little, or nothing, about.
Then kick them.
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