# Job/Internship Applications - Do you say you have a disability?

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/job-internship-applications-do-you-say-you-have-a-disability/6245>\
**Category:** Type 1 & LADA\
**Created:** [January 22, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/job-internship-applications-do-you-say-you-have-a-disability/6245 "2019-01-22T22:43:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bill](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/bill/32/6131_2.png) [@Bill](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Bill)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 11:42pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/job-internship-applications-do-you-say-you-have-a-disability/6245/27 "2019-01-23T23:42:13Z")

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At my Fed. Gov. job, I changed from not having a disability to Code 84 Diabetes after I had been at my job a long time and was in the job I wanted… I struggle with that decision. But there are times because of diabetes I can find myself not following rules, or doing things that a supervisor would see as interfering with work. Such as sitting at the desk with a low hoping no one calls for 10 minutes, or pulling off the road in a gov. vehicle for a candy bar when you are only suppose to stop for fuel or a meal. That code 84, may help explain some of my actions, even though I would probably have the same rights without declaring it.

Here is a link to Q and A on diabetes as a disability.

[https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/diabetes.cfm](https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/diabetes.cfm)

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