The only thing I need tumblr to do is to get like… cool with the idea you can hire people here to do commissions for you and to like.. consider monetary support for artists cuz one of the reasons and the biggest reason I moved to twitter in the first place is because people there buy my art. I make a living there doing art.
And the vibe here is **we don’t do that here** If you want artists to be here and do art you gotta be okay with the concept of artists trying to make money.
I hate capitalism as much as the next person but I’m also 30 years old living with my fucking parents because I can’t pay for a 1 bedroom apartment. Artists are not ‘big business’. We’re not Disney. We’re just people trying to make a living or some money for groceries and shit.
Diabetes isnt the ‘ate too many sweets disease’. It just fucking is not. It’s your body slowly losing an integral function needed to nuture and energize it. Its your pancreas shutting down, its your blood cells rejecting your attempts to feed itself, its not enough insulin to go around. Its you slowly getting colder and weaker, gorging yourself with healthy food and getting next to no benefit, its being so exhausted you cant sleep. Diabetes used to kill, straight-up KILL. So no, I don’t think I will be laughing at your diabetes joke.
Do you know why diabetics eat so many sweets? Because we need sugar, and we need sugar FAST. Everyones’ bodies rely on sugars for nutrients and energy, and in a non-diabetic body sugars get absorbed at a normal rate using your normal amount of insulin into your normal red blood cells. This happens to healthy carbs, superfood vegetables, and some proteins!
Diabetics dont have that luxury! Without medication, our body is in a constant crisis where we need more sugar and the sugars that break down the fastest are sweets! But then they dont all get absorbed, then the unabsorbed sugar hangs out in our bloodstream then gets flushed out, and then we still need more. All those healthy things break down too slowly for when we’re in a crisis, and then we STILL dont absorb all of it! And I’m only talking about type 2, type 1 cant absorb anything at all because they dont have any insulin!
You cannot healthy eat or diet your way out of diabetes. You cannot lose weight out of diabetes. Once you get diabetes, even if you manage your symptoms perfectly you HAVE diabetes. You have a chronic illness. And that means its time to see doctors, get on medications, and practice self care.
And sometimes self care means you eat dessert first while dinner is cooking so you have the energy to finish cooking. Sometimes that means eating many small meals to match your body’s absorption rate. Sometimes that means eating at midnight so you have the blood sugar to sleep.
Im just tired of diabetes being seen as a joke or only something you get if you’re 'bad’. And diabetics? I love you, talk to a nutritionist about diabetic eating, and don’t forget your meds.
