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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tell people she’s diabetic.[/quote]

It's true that sometimes you need to medicalize a condition in terms folks will understand. In this case, I imagine that your explanation leaves people thinking that you are restricting calories out of your own projected vanity. And this is entirely unfair.

People will understand diabetes. Is it true? No. Will it help you get the results you want? Yes.

So, she has diabetes until you sort this thing out.
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Except that what her kid needs, which is no food except from parents, could be life threatening to a diabetic child, who needs something really different which is access to food immediately when their blood sugar is low.

So, telling people she has diabetes might or might not solve OP's problem, but it also [b]creates a dangerous situation for the next diabetic kid that she meets.[/b]

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I don't think so. OP's kid is not going to exhibit the symptoms of hypoglycemia and those would be the symptoms calling for immediate access to food. So no one will be in a situation in which they are inadvertently learning the wrong response to a life-threatening situation for a kid who is actually diabetic.

If OP were able to say briefly what the diagnosis actually is and educate people a bit, that would be great, but she does not seem to want to do that here and so she probably doesn't want to do it IRL either. And TBH, it's not her job to do this; people shouldn't be jackasses as often as they are.

Still, the odds that people without metabolic problems are going to follow rules this strict without some additional help are pretty low. Food is currency in this society. I wish it weren't, but it is. Her options for saying "it could really hurt my child if you feed her" are pretty limited. [/quote]

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