[nabs-l] Check out my latest blog

[Bridgit Pollpeter]

All my blogs are based on my real life experiences.  Though I do write
fiction as well, I am predominantly a creative nonfiction writer, and I
was hired to blog about my experiences as, and of, a diabetic and blind
person.

To be fair, we were very young, 8 or 9, and no one really meant for me
to die.  As kids do, it just worked out that the first two letters in
diabetic, D and I, sound like the word die which seemed funny to them at
the time-- not to lessen how it made me feel.

And I too certainly joined in as a group when kids found it so witty to
make fun.  It is an unfortunate thing kids do.  I am not calling anyone
out trying to make a point about bullying-- though it certainly is an
important issue.

I was friends with these people, and we played together all the time,
had weekend sleep overs and went to each others birthday parties.

The point of the blog was not so much focused on the bullying, but on
how I felt isolated from my peers because of my diabetes.  It was not
easy "being different" since I did certain things different due to my
diabetes, especially back then.  Things have changed now in terms of
diabetes though.

Bridgit

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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:13:24 -0400
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I saw the blog.  I hope this didn't really happen. No one should chant
about 
dying or diabetes.