A Dog with a Flappy Hat and a Pipe Can Only Mean One Thing ...

With all the discussion about a name change for type 1 diabetes, I laughed out loud when I saw this pop up in my Twitter feed (courtesy of the Type 1 Diabetes Memes Facebook page).  Serves as an answer anyone in the DOC could give:I've thought about the name change discussion, and I've been trying to figure out what my opinion on it is.  You'd think a person who has had type 1 diabetes for a long time would have an opinion, right?  One that jumps out and smacks me in the face with its conviction?  Nope.  I have to be completely honest:  I don't really care if the name is changed.  Or if it's not changed.  I have a surprising amount of apathy about this whole issue.  My diabetes has been classified, in one file or another, as "brittle."  And "IDDM."  And "juvenile."  And "type 1."  None of these classifications have made the public understand jack about my disease.  It's been the dizzying combination of advocacy groups, patient grassroots efforts, PR efforts, and research advancements (just a few in the long list of contributing factors) that has given society any kind of knowledge about the disease that I have lived with most of my life.Growing up with type 1 diabetes, I didn't understand that there was a different kind I could have.  I had no concept of type 2 (or NIDDM, at the time) diabetes, or gestational diabetes.  As far as I knew, anyone who had diabe...
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