Hey, not all diabetics are fat, unhealthy fucks!! It makes me sad that they literally had to rename the two kinds of diabetes in the not so distant past. It used to be there was juvenile onset diabetes and adult onset diabetes. Then kids became so fat that they started getting "adult onset" diabetes. That's when they had to rename them to Type 1 (juvenile/autoimmune) and Type 2 (adult/overweight). It also pisses me off that there is such a stigma if you say you have diabetes as so many people don't understand the difference between Type 1 & 2. My husband has had Type 1 since he was 9 years old and now has an insulin pump attached to him 24/7. It's no fault of his own, he's a perfectly healthy weight, he exercises daily and he eats an incredibly healthy diet (he doesn't even remember being allowed sweet stuff because he developed diabetes so young. He can't stand sugary things as a result so he still doesn't eat sweet stuff even though he technically can now he has a pump. Plus he has to eat well and exercise or he's more likely to suffer horrible complications!) Even though he's suffered with the disorder for over 30 years, he has no major complications yet which shows just how well he takes care of himself. The second he mentions being diabetic though, people automatically assume it's Type 2 and start lecturing him. Either that or they express surprise that he's skinny and ask if he's sure he's diabetic, as though he must be lying because he's not a landwhale! The recent explosion of Type 2 diabetics and the fact that it's usually just called "diabetes", regardless of the type, means that those with real, type 1, diabetes are treated badly because people assume it's their fault!