You'd be surprised at the amount of self-delusion there is out there that this condition is in any way beneficial. Yay you get to learn the hard way that eating carbs isn't good for you! Wonderful.
I've read such nonsense in several "feel good about your type 1 diabetes" articles and blogs and I find it infuriating and practically criminal.
Reading those articles makes me want to punch a hole through my computer monitor. This disease ruined my childhood and made my adulthood a living nightmare too. Thanks a lot, I feel so privileged. (I must be, of course, since I'm a white male).
Theresa May being the head of a party which actively wants to defund or underfund the NHS should make any sick person, or indeed any moral person, enraged at the sheer hypocrisy. She has a Freestyle Libre, great! What about all the other type 1s who aren't rich and can't afford it. Meanwhile she's making it harder for other type 1s to get it. To say that I hate her is an understatement. I loathe such craven and wanton hypocrites.
I can't get mine here in Canada despite having a script for it, since I work for myself and no insurance company will give me a group plan that covers it, and the basic drug plan doesn't think it's necessary. So I'm left with all the holes in my fingertips and lack of touch sensitivity and nasty surprises if I make a mistake or dare exercise a long time.