{"id":72,"date":"2009-06-05T19:39:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T23:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s782639264.onlinehome.us\/?p=72"},"modified":"2012-12-18T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T18:07:08","slug":"boo-barbara-walters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/type1demystified.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Boo Barbara Walters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone please tell Barbara Walters of The View that having Type 1 diabetes does not make you an alcoholic. It is statements like this whereby this blog was born.<\/p>\n

Of course any sane human being knows that having Type 1 diabetes does not make you an alcoholic, except if that human being is Barbara Walters. She had the nerve to ask Mary Tyler Moore, a woman with Type 1 diabetes for over 40 years, “Did having diabetes make you an alcoholic?” on Thursday morning’s The View.<\/p>\n

Ridiculous use of words, or misuse of words, like this are the exact reason for this blog. I am going to go out on\u00a0a limb here and say that Barbara Walters was trying to ask Ms. Moore if having to deal with a chronic illness for over 1\/2 of her life may have caused her to start using alcohol as a coping mechanism. Unfortunately, that is not what she said.<\/p>\n

Had Ms. Walters chosen her words more wisely, maybe Ms. Moore could have had an intelligent conversation regarding Type 1 diabetes. Instead the interview was taken down to a level below mediocrity where Ms. Walters asked inane questions such as the above one regarding alcoholism.<\/p>\n

Had Ms. Walters focused on how to live successfully with Type 1 diabetes then some people may have learned something. Instead she single-handedly created another myth about Type 1 diabetes that my son will have to debunk for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n

Now the saddest part about all of this nonsense, is that someone who is undereducated about Type 1 diabetes now has more misinformation swimming around their head. Someone out there, one day in the future, is going to tell my son to be careful when he drinks a beer at his 21st birthday, because having Type 1 diabetes may make him prone to alcoholism.<\/p>\n

I think Barbara Walters owes all of the people living with Type 1 diabetes an apology. She should be ashamed about how little she knew about Type 1 diabetes before the interview. She should be even more ashamed at how less people know after watching her poor excuse for an interview. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone please tell Barbara Walters of The View that having Type 1 diabetes does not make you an alcoholic. It is statements like this whereby this blog was born. Of course any sane human being knows that having Type 1 diabetes does not make you an alcoholic, except if that human being is Barbara Walters. … <\/p>\n

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