This week, we’re talking about self-advocacy.
The topic this week is self-advocacy. Self-advocacy is the capability of expressing and advocating for your own needs and desires so that you can enjoy the same options, opportunities, and rights as everyone else.
As a person with diabetes, that means expressing the need to and advocating:
- the choice to choose a diabetes management treatment that works for you
- the right to refuse a treatment
- same access to affordable and quality care and medications
- the right to a second medical opinion
- against personal medical discrimination in healthcare, workplace of school
Share a time when you had to advocate for yourself. What happened and what was the outcome?
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