Oh yes, they do. I even heard that term (in my native language) from a doctor once.

Anytime. I just hate it when any chronic mental or physical condition gets reduced to simply a character flaw or lack discipline. Diabetes is a serious illness that can potentially kill someone if not recieving proper treatment. Because of this incorrect view of diabetes, its not taken seriously. And then we wonder why insulin is so expensive.

Absolutely. I know the hesitation. Glad you did also.

Type 1 here. Thank you, thank you!

Every sub needs to here this--one usually gets downvoted to oblivion when stating diabetes T1 is autoimmune, or that we don't "get" the joke.

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Edit: downvote begins from those that can't comprehend diabetes is autoimmune, and nothing to do with metabolic type 2. So to you out there, try to understand there's a movement within the type 1 community to seriously change the name of diabetes (type 1) to something else because of so much misinformation out there. People with type 1 undergo depression and issues at a very high rate compared tot he general population because we're trying to stay alive with a disease that can kill us every time we go to bed. Plus we deal with asshats who make fun of diabetes and think we did this to ourselves. Even hospitals can kill us because their policies cover type 2 and have no idea about type 1 unless we have an endo fighting for us.

Shame on you and may you grow to be a better human.

I have been confused at flavor choices. But the way someone else's body works is none of my business

No I wouldn't. You don't have the right to "not be bothered" unfortunately.

I used to be a barista of 2 years a year ago and had to leave for school but I always felt comfortable getting those drinks from my store but when I'd go somewhere else or even now that I'm across my state they all seem to just give me this look while I'm ordering 😅 I was actually diagnosed after about a year of working there so it was fun to experiment with different recipes to figure out what I liked that wasn't too bad for me

That’s not true.

Yes some of our family members just draw the short draw, unfortunately): My twin (fraternal) sister has it and so far (knock on my wood) my brothers and I have escaped unscathed. I'm sorry that this terrible disease has chosen you. And yes, definitely more complicated than simply being hereditary - I was just trying to emphasize that it has nothing to do with lifestyle. When my sister was diagnosed, we were told that there was a gene that ran in our family that could trigger Type 1. They didn't know what triggered it, but if you had the gene and it was never triggered, you would never get Type 1. Others don't have the gene at all. We were also told the gene could skip several generations before coming back

I've been told it skips generations. This makes sense because the last in my family to have it was my grandfather, and before that it was his grandfather. But still hereditary/genetic and nothing to do with lifestyle

If you consider having your beliefs challenged to be a microaggression then I'm sorry to say you're going to have a stressful existence. Not every person who disagrees is being ableist or aggressive, they could just think you're wrong.

I was just googling something about how to explain why diabetes (or any illness) jokes really aren't funny and came across this "Diabetes jokes are not funny. They do not offend me. But they upset me." and it just perfectly explains what I'm thinking.

I can't change people nor should I ever try it's not my place, but even if one person reading a thread can learn something I'd be happy.

I don't care about her health nor was I lecturing her about her sugar consumption.

Never said anything about people who have a poor diet but still appear healthy. Not sure where this is coming from.

What part am I getting wrong?