What if the real barrier in diabetes care isn’t noncompliance but the quiet expectation of perfection? How might care shift if we stopped measuring success by flawless outcomes and started centering
I’m so thankful for your posts debunking perfection in diabetes self-management. The system places the burden of care and wellbeing on the person with diabetes then uses data-based methods to insist on perfection- perfect numbers, perfect weight blah blah blah. It’s so counter to true health but totally aligned with the rugged individual bullshit at the heart of almost every US institution (as well as all the “isms”) It actually deprives us of care- “If you can’t take care of yourself why should we take of you?!” It’s a cruel system. I’m heartened by people like you who consistently speak out.
I’m so thankful for your posts debunking perfection in diabetes self-management. The system places the burden of care and wellbeing on the person with diabetes then uses data-based methods to insist on perfection- perfect numbers, perfect weight blah blah blah. It’s so counter to true health but totally aligned with the rugged individual bullshit at the heart of almost every US institution (as well as all the “isms”) It actually deprives us of care- “If you can’t take care of yourself why should we take of you?!” It’s a cruel system. I’m heartened by people like you who consistently speak out.
You are so right about how perfection deprives us of care.