I would take T2 over T1 any day of the week. In my view, the majority of insulin resistant diabetes cases can be fixed/cured/eliminated/reversed or otherwise nuked from orbit using knowledge and determination. Autoimmune diabetes will always require basal insulin injections in order to maintain safe glucose concentrations, whereas those with a functional pancreas should be able to maintain natural glucose homeostasis through dietary strategy (often aided by exercise). On the other side of the coin, autoimmune diabetics are [usually] able to eat “normally” and counter the glucose response with injections. But to me, this is only an advantage if you consider “normal” to be optimal, and actually miss the things that gave you insulin resistant diabetes, which I don’t.
In summary, autoimmune is currently a lifelong condition that will always require medication in order to stay alive, whereas resistant diabetes merely requires commitment and motivation in order to stay alive. Most would say they’d prefer neither, but I personally I am genuinely glad that I developed T2DM as it has made me a far better human being in every objective and subjective metric.
Edited to add: Apologies for rambling on somewhat outside the scope of the topic.
