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December Round Up with Eritrea and Rob - Talking Disability and Achievement Culture

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December Round Up with Eritrea - Talking Disability & Achievement Culture in Diabetes Diabetics Doing Things Podcast

Rob and Eritrea are back for the return of the episode format of Testing Testing our Blood Sugar. We’re covering a lot in this December round up, but overall we want to wish you a Happy Holidays and a safe and prosperous 2021. Thanks so much for being a part of Diabetics Doing Things.

In this episode we cover:

The conversation around Diabetes and Disability. From the discussion on Twitter, to the Amazon documentary on Oscar Pistorius, Rob and Eritrea talk about living with Diabetes and how they think about having a disability or identifying as disabled.

Achievement culture in Diabetes. Why have we for so long only shown extraordinary people living with Diabetes as the example of what life with Diabetes is like? Rob talks about falling victim to that narrative and how we are working to normalize living a normal life with Diabetes

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