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About to start watching the inspiring advocates of the #dedoc° symposium that was held earlier today at #EASD2022 🍿

Sad I couldn't watch it live. Couldn't wait to catch up here ▶️

#nothingaboutuswithoutus #diabetesadvocacy
@EASDnews @dedocORG 1/n

I already know many happy tears will be shed listening to their inspiring advocacy work 🥲

#EASD2022 #dedoc°voices #nothingaboutuswithoutus #diabetesadvocacy #languagematters
@EASDnews @dedocORG 2/n

Dedoc° symposium, What we wish you knew and why:
'It's the 1st ever #dedoc° symposium at #EASD2022'. This is what I had in mind 10y ago - a panel of advocates at the world largest #diabetes conference.'

-Bastian Hauck, @dedocORG founder

#nothingaboutuswithoutus
@EASDnews 3/n

Dedoc° symposium -What we wish you knew and why:
'The #dedocvoices are at the ❤️ of everything #dedoc° does. Our scholarship brings about 150 #diabetesadvovates from around the world to conferences like this.'
- @tadorna

#EASD2022 #payitforward
@EASDnews @dedocORG 4/n

Dedoc° symposium -What we wish you knew and why:
'Prof. Chantal Mathieu, President of #EASD, has made this happen. Thank you @professorcm ❤️'
- @tadorna

[me, 🥹 already]

#EASD2022 #dedoc°voices #nothingaboutuswithoutus #diabetesadvocacy
@EASDnews @dedocORG 5/n

#dedoc° symposium -What we wish you knew and why:
'Welcome to the most important members of the team, people living with #diabetes. Now, you are where you should be & you need to speak up 📢'
- Prof. Chantal Mathieu

#EASD2022 #nothingaboutuswithoutus #PwD
@EASDnews @dedocORG 6/n

#dedoc° symposium -What we wish you knew and why:
'When Covid started the #DOC worked on how we could remain connected though so much had already been done. Peer support & peer to peer learning is life saving & life changing.'
-@RenzaS

Yes ❤️

#EASD2022
@EASDnews @dedocORG 7/n

#dedoc° symposium -What we wish you knew and why:
'Even b4 the Covid pandemic hit, #PwD had a couple of decades of building & expanding their peer support online. But not everyone is online.'
-@AndreaLimbourg

#EASD2022 #nothingaboutuswithoutus #diabetes
@EASDnews @dedocORG 8/n

#dedoc° symposium -What we wish you knew and why:
'FB groups & community support have been instrumental on how to build & use #DIYAID. Groups grew exponentially from local to international level.'
-@AndreaLimbourg

#EASD2022 #nothingaboutuswithoutus #PwD
@EASDnews @dedocORG 9/n

#dedoc° symposium -What we wish you knew and why:
'The #DOC enables us to find people like us all over the world. #diabetes is hard & can be quite isolating but we don't have to do this alone.'
-@AndreaLimbourg

YES 🙏

#EASD2022 #nothingaboutuswithoutus
@EASDnews @dedocORG 10/n

#dedoc° symposium -What we wish you knew and why:
'We are on our own 99.98% of the time.
"The person w/#diabetes who knows the most lives the longest" remains true today.'
-@JeffHitchcock59 @cwdiabetes

#EASD2022 #nothingaboutuswithoutus #PwD
@EASDnews @dedocORG 11/n

#dedoc° symposium -What we wish you knew and why:
'More adults with #T1D are at @cwdiabetes now than kids. Thay have found their tribe and a place where everyone knows the beeps.'
-@JeffHitchcock59

🥹🙏🙏

#EASD2022 #nothingaboutuswithoutus #PwD
@EASDnews @dedocORG 12/n

#dedoc° symposium -What we wish you knew and why:
'We never knew that #Covid would actually bring us together. Online peer support in 🇿🇦 brought the comforting realisation that you are not alone ❤️'
-@salih_hendricks

#EASD2022 #diabetesadvocacy #PwD
@EASDnews @dedocORG 13/n

#dedoc° symposium -What we wish you knew and why:
'Peer support gave #PwD power. We passed on the info we gathered to the community without media access using the "Smoke Signal Media". We became family ❤️'
-@salih_hendricks #diabeticamputees

#EASD2022 @EASDnews @dedocORG 14/n

Dedoc° symposium -What we wish you knew and why:
'I'm not a number. I'm a person. I have #diabetes.'
-Tom Dean @welshy_89

THIS 👆

#EASD2022 #dedoc°voices #nothingaboutuswithoutus #diabetesadvocacy
@EASDnews @dedocORG 15/n

Dedoc° symposium -What we wish you knew and why:
'I was embarrassed. I was scared what people would think. I just wanted to be normal.'
-Tom Dean @welshy_89 #diabeteschat

Why have we all been there? Why?

#EASD2022 #dedoc°voices #PwD
@EASDnews @dedocORG 16/n

Dedoc° symposium -What we wish you knew and why:
'#diabeteschat - every Monday at 8PM GMT on Twitter - brings people together to share lived experience, connect and not feel alone.'
-@welshy_89

Again, why have we all been there ?

#EASD2022 #dedoc°voices
@EASDnews @dedocORG 17/n

Dedoc° symposium -What we wish you knew and why:
'Find you tribe. Love them hard.'
-@tadorna quoting @RenzaS ❤️❤️❤️

#EASD2022 #dedoc°voices #nothingaboutuswithoutus #diabetesadvocacy #EASD
@EASDnews @dedocORG 18/n