Fundraising Videos for a Cure

I suppose the reason why there's so many fundraising videos floating around the internet is because it's summertime when all the JDRF walks happen. I was on YouTube the other day and searched for "diabetes" just to see if anything interesting had been added, and found a ton of these slideshow-set-to-music-type videos. And they all made me want a cure, of course, watching the kids. Probably more than the average person, even.

But it got me wondering. I've heard some people complain about how so much fundraising for type 1 focuses on kids and making people feel sorry for the kids. I, personally, don't feel that living with type 1 is any easier as an adult than it was as a kid, although perhaps because kids are supposed to be so innocent and carefree in everything else it is more unfair for them. But I started to wonder if a video could be put together with the same idea, fundraising for type 1, except focusing on adults instead. I don't know if it would evoke the same types of emotions. I know some adults would probably hate it because they don't want people to feel sorry for them or treat them any differently—but I'm sure parents feel that way, too. And besides, this is fundraising; you've got to have that feel-sorry-this-is-so-unfair factor.

I haven't done the Walk in years, not since high school, and I can't say I've really been involved in any local diabetes events, although I would like to change that over the coming year (there are type 1 and pump support groups here which I've never attended, for example). But still, I think an adult-focused fundraising video could be interesting even just from an experimental viewpoint to see if it could be done. And let's face it—"juvenile diabetes" doesn't disappear once we turn eighteen.

I don't really have the resources myself (namely, dozens of photos to use) otherwise I might try in some of the free time I have left before school (read: work) starts.