What are jokes about diabetes?

Answer 1

One answer:

No! That would be really cruel to make jokes about diabetics!

Another answer:

It is cruel and rude to make jokes about diabetics.

A different opinion:

As a 13-year-old Type 1 diabetic, I don't think there is a problem with this. Are you kidding? We are like joke magnets. So I say go ahead make all the jokes you want. I think they're funny, and I really enjoy them. So if you don't like it, don't look at it. If you don't have it, you don't know how it feels or what we feel about it.

Another opinion:

Actually, there are "jokes" about almost every disease. Most are told by the patients themselves to lighten the load of being sick. Humor about a particular disease is commonplace in support groups of every kind. Laughter is often a good medicine. Keep in mind that the question very well may have been asked by young diabetic, in trying to come to terms with a lifelong struggle to deal with anxiety. Would you deny him or her that opportunity to laugh a little?

An opinion from a nurse:

To make a sweeping generalization, medical professionals are famous (some who misunderstand may say infamous), for being able to get through very emotionally draining and wretched circumstances with the aid of comic relief. Viewing it from outside, one might mistakenly think we are cold and callous and have unthinkably poor insight into the plight of our patients. Nothing could be further from the truth. Many nurturing people in the medical profession are very empathetic and can feel the emotional pain of others. We have a need to mentally survive in situations where control of our emotions for the sake of others requires a measure of dissociation from the reality of the Horror in front of us. So we may inject "dark humor" as a defense mechanism.

As any professional comedian will tell you, comedy is all about timing, and it is especially true with dark humor. For that reason, it is usually in the break room where you might hear the comic relief used to the extreme, away from the hearing of those who may not understand the underlying pain behind the comedy. Telling these jokes or making these stress-relieving remarks to another professional is different from being rude and callous, and saying something inappropriate at a bad time or to the wrong people. Luckily, most people who are empathetic enough to need this form of relief also understand the importance of timing, and understanding one's "audience".

"Gallows humor" is the same concept except it is comic relief sought by the person directly involved in the difficult circumstance, like the patient. This is used when the patient needs a stress-relieving moment about their own pain or plight. As said above, this is often a tool of support groups who tell these jokes, as well as patients who make sarcastic quips about themselves or their disease to each other. Some of the funniest pieces of this type of humor that I have heard have come from patients talking to each other, their families, or to me.

Everyone in my family is diabetic or pre-diabetic, and all of us enjoy a good Diabetes joke at the right time. At the risk of sounding cloying, instead of thinking of us all as callous or cruel to each other, please see through this, and understand that we are all actually very sweet. *rimshot*

A joke:

None that aren't insul'in.

Another opinion:

THAT'S JUST SICK! Making fun of someone because they're diseased! That's low! Why cant you just make fun of us blonds like the rest of the world!?!

Okay then:

A nurse at my hospital received a call from an anxious woman. "I'm diabetic and I'm afraid I've had too much sugar today," she said.

"Are you light-headed? " my colleague asked.

"No," the caller answered, "I'm a brunette".

I'm diabetic and I like them:

I personally find diabetic jokes very funny! i myself am a Type 1 Diabetic, and have been for the past 11 years. i have trouble thinking of good one's, but i am always open to hearing some. i love to joke around about my diabetes with my friends, like using Drugie terms around people and watching their faces, then telling them that you are diabetic. haha. for example, refer to your insulin as "the stuff" or taking a shot, or giving yourself insulin through the pump as "shooting up" and when your bloodsugar is high, openly say that you are "High" haha So if you have any good ones too, please let me know! And chill out, it's just diabetes. haha. Now even though it is a serious disease, it is still good to have a humor for this kind of stuff.

I'm diabetic and love to laugh at jokes about it:

Hello! I love to laugh at diabetes jokes. My sister died at 50 after 37 years of brittle diabetes! She had kidney failure, heart attacks, and amputations. I myself survived 45 years of diabetes and had a heart attack and kidney failure, and 16 months ago received a kidney/pancreas transplant...now I am not a diabetic any more! Too laugh in the face of death, and doing all you can to fight it is heroism, not morbidity! Doctors say I am healthy as a horse. I had always taken careful care of my diabetes, but when it is brittle it is tough to do a lot with. Now I feel like I have been reborn and am a volunteer for the American Diabetes Association in Wichita Kansas. Keep laughing for it IS the best medicine for survival, and check those blood sugars!!

Humor has a long history of being used to help ease difficulties in life. And in this case, don't they say that "laughter is the best medicine?"