Pheebs
I am quite honestly exasperated over the T2 and T! etc diabetes. For me perosnally, and it is only my opinion....I actually think that type 2's have a pretty worse time than us type 1 diabetics. For one, they cannot alter their doses of insulin etc to have hugely varying types of carbs as I did at Christmas....they as far as I see have a much tougher time than us type 1's.......I actually prefer that as I have diabetes, that I have a diabetes type 1 that allows me to eat as much or as little as I like, when I like. If I decide to have a huge bar of chocloate (that I never do!!), then I could bolus extra without any significant rises in my levels. Type 2 as far as my perspective is, is far worse than our type 1 to manage.
To me, it doesn't matter what causes the disease, it is managing it. Personally, I think I used up my lifetime supply of insulin in the first 20 years of my life as I was such a chocoholic, but I don't blame myself or others, as it is just life, fullstop. Yes, many of us could do more exercise etc to avoid disease, but the same applies to non diabetics, ie looking after ourselves to avoid heart disease etc....
I personally think that if anybody who has any 'type' of diabetes needs help and support from others it is actually type 2's, because their regimes are not so flexible as ours.
You can be recognised as having type 1 i.e from injecting, from hypo's etc...type 2's haven't. Like people that also have 'hidden' diseases such as fibromyalgia (me!!)-people think you look good, but you feel cr*p, and because people think you look ok, they expect you to be okay....and I think the same applies to type 2 persons, you don't see them inject, hypo's etc so how would you know they are type 2 unless they told you...you wouldn't...and yet you would not want help from people that literally have the same classified disease as you....just that you can't see it.
As a fellow type 1 to you, I am appalled by such an attitude toward an other human being. All of us whether diabetic or not will have some disease before the end of our lives, otherwise we wouldn't have death. Please do not judge others, as some day somebody very close to you will have type 2 or another disease and you will be making bad judgements upon them.