"People choose diabetes" Fuck yourself. Long time reader (since last Spring on Reddit) but never been angry enough to post. Well today I'm pissed off enough. I'm a high school student. Not particularly special (BMI=21) and one of my older siblings has type 1 diabetes. In my biology class we're learning about the endocrine system, and so we started discussing diabetes. I tried to be involved in the subject, because I know a lot about the topic, because I love my sibling. The kids in my class didn't really know anything about type 1, so the subject same to type 2. Then a whale sized student said "it's too bad people choose to have diabetes" followed by a "yeah, like my friend! He drank too much Coke!" Choose. Not "type 2 diabetes". Just diabetes as a whole. Choose. Fuck. There needs to be more type 1 awareness, or something. Some people with type 2 can choose to have the disease that people with type 1 are forced to have. People who make the choice are disgusting. I then explained the difference between the two types, and they ignored type 1 to still discuss type 2 and how bad they felt for people who have it.  I understand that some people just get type 2, but the way my classmates were speaking was directly linked to being overweight and getting the disease as a result.  Dumb fucks who can't identify the disease they'll have in 15 years anyway.  This probably made no sense. Sorry. Idk where else to voice it.