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<blockquote data-quote="JoKalsbeek" data-source="post: 2345596" data-attributes="member: 401801"><p>Usually, when people get things mixed up, I just take it as an opportunity to educate them a little. I didn't know much about it either, and that was with it running in my family as well as hitting friends, and caring for a diabetic insulin-dependant cat for years. (The vet said he was a T2. He was a T3c, after pancreatitis. There's so many different kinds...!). </p><p></p><p>I don't think a name change'd help anything. People are stuck in their beliefs and don't really take time to learn about something until they're confronted with it personally. I know the bulk of my family wouldn't know what metabolic meant anyway, opposed to auto-immune. So I just shrug it off, and give the basics when asked.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoKalsbeek, post: 2345596, member: 401801"] Usually, when people get things mixed up, I just take it as an opportunity to educate them a little. I didn't know much about it either, and that was with it running in my family as well as hitting friends, and caring for a diabetic insulin-dependant cat for years. (The vet said he was a T2. He was a T3c, after pancreatitis. There's so many different kinds...!). I don't think a name change'd help anything. People are stuck in their beliefs and don't really take time to learn about something until they're confronted with it personally. I know the bulk of my family wouldn't know what metabolic meant anyway, opposed to auto-immune. So I just shrug it off, and give the basics when asked. [/QUOTE]
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