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59 woman love being childfree by choice. I am surrounded by neighbours who all have kids. They are middle class. I love not making criminals like rapists, thieves, murderers, every criminal has a parent

This is great! I love the quote: "too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought". Ouch! It's so important to respect the individual even when you disagree with them and the techniques you offer here can catalyze deeper conversations about subjects that matter to our lives. Thanks for this timely post!

What i learned from this video, is that when I'm 29, i can get a metal just for survivingwith diabetes :D In all seriousness though, this was an extremely relatable ted talk, I'm very lucky to have great health insurance through my dad, and because of that, I've always had affordable access to all the diabetes supplies i need, its something im very grateful for. But its also true that diabetes is still a challenge for me at times, and even though i manage it well, its still has its challenges, and alot of the time, its easy to feel guilty for not managing better, but its important to realize that this a hard condition to manage, and I'm gonna have it for the rest of my life, and as someone who's only been diabetic for 3 years, that's still kinda crazy to think about. I hope one day everyone is able to have affordable access to the supplies they need, i hopefully, one day, that we cure this condition, and that becomes cure becomes just as available.

This is the result of feminism, there is nothing more honorable than product children.

You are the villain of the piece. Thanks for not helping keep your country’s population level buoyant, and not helping to avert the disaster of an aged unsupported by enough youth, thanks for not helping to prevent a housing market collapse from too few people needing them, and not contributing to a strong and dynamic workforce capable of paying taxes to keep your country going. You are a selfish parasite who will expect to pay other people’s children to wipe your backside in your dotage. We do not need more people thinking like you. Kindly crawl back into your single bedroom apartment in some concrete hellhole, shut the blinds, and wallow in your lonely, self-centred life, and leave the rest of us responsible people to try and untangle this mess of declining population.

AMEN. Thank you for saying this

Doctor says "Why aren't YOU taking care of your diabetes?!" No other illness would blame you for it's manifestation. Yet this autoimmune illness Type 1 blames the patient. No wonder we all suffer depression

I've always hated the idea of large families. And I was born and raised in the south. I hate southern small town culture. I prefer small families. I'm 30 but I still want one kid, maybe two before I turn 38 or 40 years old.

Excellent talk and spot on.

What future generations? There won’t be any more generations apparently.

Nobody should have children they don't want. CPS would get far fewer calls if the only people reproducing were people who wanted to have children.

I completely liked the speech because I inspired about what he tolkek.

Coming from Russia it’s liberating to know that I don’t have to be a mom to be a happy woman

Aw, I can tell that she was a bit nervous to speak out about this-but I applaud her for speaking up anyway! It takes courage. Loved her message!

This is the only video i have ever 👎 since the birth of RUclips

who disliked this lol, they can't handle the truth

You talk about what you have given. The most important thing you have given is the gift of space for others. It is the most precious gift anyone can give to an overpopulated, resource depleted planet. I am 82 years old childfree. Never regretted it for a minute.

Child free chose you.

Unfortunately the ones who decided to go child free are slightly delaying society's unravelling. More children will speed up the process which these idiots don't realise. We can't take care of the humans we have popped out and yet everyone and their grandfather wants to have 4 - 5 kids/household and then we a complain that there are no jobs.

Amen! People have stigmatized diabetes for far too long. And all media and Hollywood do is spread false information. Ive seen maybe 1 movie with some accuracy about type1 diabetes.

I have a daughter who was wanted and is loved. But I salute those who make the choice that is right for them. My heart broke when a friend said he loved his child but, knowing what he knows now, he wished they hadn't had a child.

Child free=childless.

41, married, child-free. DINK FTW!

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Societal expectations of having children is ridiculous. I'm glad someone like her is speaking about this. This is a great tedtalk

it's not by choice if noone wants to have kids with you

Absolutely love this!!!! You are my inspiration.

What an important topic! I'm teaching a workshop about how to address controversy in the context of global wars, and I'm certainly using this as a resource. Thanks Joseph!

I knew in my late teen's didn't want kid's. Now @ 58, still childfree and happier than ever.

42 and childfree female here. My husband had his vasectomy 4 years into our relationship at the age of 27. I get more flack about it due to being a woman past her prime for having babies. His family doesn’t know about his chosen vasectomy and thinks maybe we will separate and he will still have kids. Thing is, it made my husband realize that his family is judging me more harshly thinking it is my decision not to give him family. I told him not to advertise his vasectomy because it isn’t anyone’s business about our reproductive choices. He now realizes that women are judged more harshly and sees his family in a different light. Not so loving.

Can't wait for my vasectomy June 6 9:00 AM

People are starting to understand that diet plays a very big role in diabetes. You are what you eat. Science is figuring this out very quickly. Doctors don't want to cure you they want you to keep buying their medicines.

It is Amazing how sharing your story increases your bottom line.

Diabetic low or high blood sugar. Ex roommate went thru this. Constant hunger & thirst & no weight gain, every carb laden food in the house gone. Constant mood swings. It was awful for her.

Thank you so very much for telling my story I hope that this can help prevent any other families from having to go through what we had to

The crash a 82 mp/h is why I am kinda scared to drive I’m 13 and was diagnosed in 2012 and I was in the hospital for 4 days and I only remember 1 day because I was in and out of consciousness because my blood sugar was so high I’m afraid that If one day I change my cgm (continues glucose monitor) it takes 2 hours to warm up and if i go low when I’m driving and I don’t notice i will crash and possibly cause people their lives

I'm childfree by choice and it's awesome. I will NEVER have kids.

15:16 this happened to me twice and my work fired me because I didn't call anyone to cover my shift or open the store for me... I was unconscious... Even worse is that my blood sugar dropping wasn't even because of the type 1 I've had since I was 6, nope it's because of Addison's disease which I've had symptoms of for the past 5 years and have only just gotten diagnosed for this past month. I can't tell you the responses I get when I deadpan tell people about the 5 seizures I remember having along with the ones I don't. Or when I mention all the times I've gone into a coma, or the dead sleeping. Or when my blood sugar is 500 and I'm trying not to puke while being the only employee in the store. Or how, while for 2 years straight I had to have my sugar be 500 before going to sleep so that I'd wake up with it at 30.

My sister has type 1 diabetes.I want a cure one day.I love my sister and this hurts me that she went through what she had gone through like yourself.This was what she went through.Of course her journey is my journey.We thank you for educating all regarding this.Thank you so much.

What an absolute role-model. I am childfree by choice at 29 and it's so important to be able to speak up about this rather than be shunned by society because we're expected to be mothers.

Wonderful talk, thank you ❤️

I'm 53, 200 plus years of southern ancestry..and child free. And nope..at 53..I have zero regrets at my decision. But I do still find the southern culture at odds with that. Why every woman wants to raise a few young uns. No..we don't. I still find people ask me not do you have children but how many. Then they are gasping when I reply..why would I do that..and the area where I moved to in SC last year has a high teen pregnancy rate as well. People in the south can not wrap their head around a woman who chooses not to have children rather than being childless. I have many reasons I don't want children. But even the smallest things are better without children. I got sick at work and had to come home early. I put on my pjs and crawled in bed and napped for a few hours. Mom's can't do that. So yep..the child free life works for this southern bell.

Watch at .75 speed. It gives her speech more gravitas, if making her sound a bit languid.

Love it! Thank you for the talk <3

Well said! I sure hope the cure comes soon! Drug companies aren't interested in a cure..... they'd lose too many lifelong patients then!

Everything you said is so perfect, wish everyone would watch this!

I have been a type 1 insulin dependent diabetic have been since I was 12in 1993& I’m 38now so I’m on the insulin pump now I love it wish I would’ve been on it most of my life but I am glad I found it out..

I was in a diabetic coma in 2010 for 5 days my mama thought cause I wouldn’t wake up that morning my blood sugar was low but she fed me loads of sugar and when they ran tests on me in the hospital it was 1600they told me I was lucky I didn’t die from ketoacidosis coma but I woke up after 5 days and went thru numerous surgeries they took out my galbladder(which nothing was wrong with)the nurse in the same hospital injected potassium straight into my Iv line which almost killed me a day later she did it again and my mama got onto her&told her she should’ve hung the potassium in a bag and dripped it in slowly!Well because of this I was put on the heart floor for 2weeks they almost killed me I weighed 150lbs when I went in and when they got me to St.Vincent’s Hospital in Jacksonville,FL they did surgery on me there and found out I had my small intestine tied in a knot and they cut it out and resectioned it and found the pathology report said I had chrohn’s disease but the dr said I may only have one bout with it or it could come back years later thank God for this hospital and they saved my life.I won’t ever forget it I appreciate it everyday!I had to have a blood transfusion twice while I was there because my main artery from my heart it was pinched off from the hospital that took out my galbladder starved me I weighed 80lbs.They put me on food thru the IV which helped me regain my strength and gain enough weight they could do my surgery for my intestines thank god that hospital has some of the best drs&nurses I’ve ever known god bless them!

A low carb diet would do you wonders, as it has me. Sugar is a diabetic's worse enemy. We are sugar and carb intolerant. No matter how much insulin we take, we will never be able to have normal blood sugars if we are constantly pumping our bodies full of the very foods our bodies can't handle. All diabetics should follow a low carb diet and seek to achieve the normal blood sugars to which we have a right.

Yes to all of this. It's harrowing, deadly and all encompassing and worst of all, invisible. My son has just turned 4 and was diagnosed a few months ago. As his parents, we don't sleep for periods longer than 3 hours any more and eating has gone from being fun family time to a mathematic equation with infinite variables. Ever had to wake a small child up and stab his finger to get some blood? We have, every 3 hours, every night. His tiny fingers are full of holes and we are all so very tired. Then there's the tech, with incompatibilities and competing standards, infusion set recalls, signal losses and cgm readings that are miles away from the fingerprick levels. Self medication multiple times a day with potentially deadly consequences, where the factors are so variable, is difficult. Yet you would think he's just a regular kid. If you know someone who is a type 1, cut them some slack. They are carrying a heavy load.