Type 1 Type 2 - can they be more positively distinguished?

[zand]

However, it is irksome to be tarred with this brush.

Just how irksome do you think it would be to have tried to lose weight for 25 years? Tar me with whatever brush you want. I'm an obese type 2 and obviously 25 years ago thought it would be great to be diabetic one day so I decide to sit on my backside all day and eat, eat, eat. Lifestyle choice.

When you feel less irked perhaps you could read up about insulin resistance and leptin resistance.

 

[Heathenlass]

Leaving aside the "tarred with this brush" aspect of the OP and looking at the question: can they be more positively distinguished?

Yes they can, by renaming them. Should they be? No.

I will hold my hands up and say that when the doctor said to me "you have type 1 diabetes", my response was to stare vacantly at him wondering "what the Hell is that then?". So, sorry Martin Luther King but I was sincerely ignorant. That said, I had no involvement with diabetes through family, friends, education or work.

Point is, everyone can't know everything about all the conditions and ailments out there. The secondary, and perhaps bigger point, is that when people are ignorant they will do one of two things: 1. Ask questions and seek to learn. 2. Say the first thing that comes to mind.

Approximately 6hrs after the Doc told me that I was leaving the hospital having been educated on diabetes. Do I worry or care of people can't tell the difference? No way. I have enough to concern myself with in life without that!!

Sorry if I offended you with that quote, @ Scardoc, but that wasn't really the context in which I was using it . The context was in regard to those people who have a firm opinion on what we, as diabetics should be doing or not doing, or how we brought it on ourselves based on what they have read in the media or " know" second hand from knowing someone who has diabetes . I hope that clears up what I meant

Signy

 

[Scardoc]

Sorry if I offended you with that quote, @ Scardoc, but that wasn't really the context in which I was using it . The context was in regard to those people who have a firm opinion on what we, as diabetics should be doing or not doing, or how we brought it on ourselves based on what they have read in the media or " know" second hand from knowing someone who has diabetes . I hope that clears up what I meant

Signy

Absolutely no offense taken at all @Heathenlass - I was just highlighting my ignorance in the past

 

[Jaylee]