Originally Posted by
rachel120
The whole diabetes thing is meaningless. I don't have diabetes, but I do have hypoglycemia, and yeah, your body gives you plenty of notice to get off and eat.
I didn't see where gender was brought up. OP if you are a woman, could your mother just be plain old sexist? If so, that's a problem, you can't rationalize against such a belief.
Definitely get your father involved.
I am female but
I dont think my mums sexist as when I was younger even though I was In a different country I was allowed to ride my bike anywhere safe (park, or quiet roads) as long as my brother was there cycling as well (which I understood at the time as I was around 8 or 9 back then and my brother was 10 or 11 back than so we were still young but I don't go cycling with my brother anymore as we don't get along anymore and because he's at uni.