Diabetes (not diabeatus) rant Type 1 diabetes runs in my family. My brother died from complications related to it and my 17-year-old son has it as well.  Both of them were/are tall, slim men, as a lot of people with type 1 are. I hate fat, unhealthy people for making diabetes a self-inflicted joke.  When I tell people about my son's disease, I cringe from the look on their face. I then have to spend a lot of time explaining that no, he's not fat, and that I haven't committed child abuse by shovelling fat and sugar into his body until it gave up. Type 1 diabetes is a serious and currently incurable disease. My fear is that research funding will start to dry up as more focus and attention is brought to type 2 due to the prevalence of the obese fuckers "suffering" from it. (Thank you for listening to a pissed off lurker.)