Yes, “downgrade” was the problem; in this case it implies that MDI is somehow a “downgrade” of a pump. Pumps don’t work while SCUBA diving, or at least they fail PDQ so the tech has limitations and that’s the most frequent case where I have chosen to go back to MDI.
“Impairment” is loaded too, at least in some dialects of English (I speak both American and, natively, English and I can no longer tell the difference.) “Disability” might be better but T2s use pumps and do not have a “disability” in US law. “Condition” is best. “Voluntarily” is still loaded by I don’t think it can be avoided; alternative wordings sound like something out of a legal contract, “Have you deliberately and by your own unforced choice.” Yuck.
Have you voluntarily reduced the amount of technology you use to treat your condition.
Although there’s still not a lot of choice if you are going SCUBA dividing with a disposable pump…
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Please add an option for “Not Applicable” here…we’ve never not used our tech.
“At times when I am not using my HET, I feel more insecure than when I do use it.”
Also, I’m taking it as caregiver, can/should I also see if my son wants to take it from his perspective also? 12yo.
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I totally follow. There are a few aspects here: my first language is German and the items were originally constructed in German and it was hard enough already and most items went through at least 5 iterations. The English translation was checked by and discussed with two native English speakers and it was difficult/impossible at times to arrive at a translation that could be considered 100% identical in both languages. This was also the reason to not offer a version in easy read English, as it would have been too much effort, even if i would have liked that to be available.
The idea behind “voluntarily” was making a choice to reduce the amount or complexity of technology used because you wanted to and not because you couldn’t afford it anymore or something like that.
Impairment vs Disability vs … : the paper I write about constructing the survey and the results will be graded, so I am using the term “impairment”, as this is what the Prof. grading it uses. German academia isn’t 100% concise about that terminology in that specific context, but this is what will get me in the least amount of trouble 
Another thing to consider is also that the survey isn’t aimed solely at diabetics. Usually in science it is more common to narrow down the field but I had my raesons to go in the opposite direction.
Anyways, thanks for the continous input, I am learning a lot from that.
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Hey, thanks for the input. That’s a good point, I’ll think about how to incorporate that.
It would be great if your son took the survey, I am happy about every participant who widens the horizon.
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