Insulin Pump Users

Jan,

It seems clear to me from your remarks that you were abused and neglected as a
child. This is perhaps the worst offense that anyone could possibly commit
against another person. Child abuse, sexual abuse and rape are pretty darned
evil, if you ask me. Anyone I know who has suffered any of these atrocities has
spent years in therapy dealing with the fallout. (And I’m quite frightened by
the number of people I know personally who have been the victim of these
crimes.) And none of these people would have said, in regard to the person who
abused them, "We have no relationship whatever now. I’m sorry I’ve been such a
disappointment to her." You clearly _do_ have a relationship with your mother in
your mind and thoughts, even if there is no further contact between you.

Yet you still say, "I call the attitude of my mom, ignorance by choice." It
seems to me that you still live with your mother every day, and perhaps worse,

she still lives within you. Your own ignorance by choice, especially hurtful
given that you have had so many unfortunate opportunities to learn that hate and
ignorance are damaging and hurtful, is, to me, surprising and disappointing.

That your life has not included suffering from addiction to narcotics or the
social stigma to which many gays (lesbians, bisexuals, et. al.) are subjected
must be a relief to you. Despite the admirable strength you’ve clearly
demonstrated in surviving the "prehistory" of effective treatment of diabetes
and the horrific abuse to which you were subjected, I don’t think you’d have had
the fortitude to survive addiction or coming out of the closet and living your
life openly as something other than heterosexual.

But your ignorance of the subject does not grant you a license to sit back in
your lay persons’ armchair and play ten-cent pshrink, or to pass judgement on
others, of whose situations your remarks reveal you to clearly know nothing at
all.

__________________________________
They first came for the communists
and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a communist
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a trade unionists
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant
Then they came for me -
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
-Pastor Martin Niemoller

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