Just a friendly PSA from your neighborhood T1D:
My fellow writers, please stop using diabetic as a descriptor for something sweet, or saying eating something sweet will make you diabetic.
It& #39;s inaccurate and harmful to keep spreading that narrative. It is no different than what +

+ happens when people use psychological terms like & #39;sociopath& #39; or & #39;psychopath& #39; for exaggeration and in turn misrepresent what those medical terms actually mean.
Just stop.
They are medical terms for a reason, not the punchline of a joke or a descriptor for a food or action. +

It really just completely ruins a fic for me when I see these things happening.
My disease is not fun.
It is not a joke.
It is exhausting and I have to deal with it every single day of my life because if I don& #39;t? I die.
So to have it cheapened as a way to describe +

something as & #39;too sweet& #39;?
It sucks.
It& #39;s sucks a lot.
And I& #39;m not necessarily mad that people do this because I know it is done out of ignorance and not to purposely offend, but please, now that you know, stop.

Sorry for the rant, but I was really enjoying a fic and this happened and I am just so frustrated and I didn& #39;t want to leave a comment on the fic bc I don& #39;t want to be /that person/ but people need to know that this isn& #39;t okay.