Ok, so this is my bug bear (I hope this falls within the rules as I'm not bashing any type of diabetes)...
I am seriously getting so sick of the general ignorance, perpetrated by the newpapers/media in general about the grouping/generalisation that EVERYBODY has T2 & the only form of diabetes is T2!
It's like, every headline is a scaremongering tactic, or a branding that all diabetics are unfit or overweight when this is so not the case! It's like, in the headline it says diabetes. It doesn't specify even in the storyline that leading an unhealthy lifestyle can contribute to type 2. Nor does it say that not every type 2 has the condition because of the lifestyle they have or haven't led! It also brands everyone the same, which we are so not.
Then when I meet people & they're like "Oh, so you must have had a really unhealthy diet/been a fat kid?" and I'm like "NO! I got the flu & my body attacked itself!" or the most infuriating of them all, coming from non-diabetic, non professional people who've read a newpaper article/seen a report on the news & now assume all diabetics need to live a carb free/sugar free diet! Drives me crazy!
I blame the media entirely for peoples' ignorance. I also believe there should be more education about diabetes & it's catagories in schools. It was bad enough when I was at school & the only person in my entire school to have diabetes, nobody knew anything about it at that time & there were a lot fewer diabetics out there, but now there are so many of us, there's no reason there shouldn't be more education out there.
Rant over. I feel much better!!!