Type 1 diabetic and it annoys me...

Kinda of off topic question but, how did you physically feel before you were diginosed with type 1 diabetes?

And yes you have the right to be annoyed!!! But its more healthy to be up front with them and tell them how you feel, so your not continusiously getting angry..Try to look at it like they want to help you more than anything!!

Thank you all for you're advice and comments; I realise I was a newbie and immature to diabetes and had to still come to terms with the illness itself; which is probably why it frustrated me so much.

I understand completely that my family and fiance care for me; it's a natural reaction correct? I guess you can tell them "I am old enough to take care of myself" yet they will still persist on commenting on every little thing.

As for the media - too much attention defiantly seen as the media get a lot wrong anyway.

Thanks again

I too am a type 1 diabetic and have been for 19 years. I totally understand your point about people being unable to distinguish between the two (very different) conditions.

As for the drinking, it took me a while to learn my own limits. It's inevitable that you'll have a few hiccups along the way - they will happen with or without alcohol - but if you are going to drink, the best advice I can think of is to make sure you always have your testing kit, insulin and some form of glucose with you. And remember that your blood sugar can plummet a few hours after you've stopped drinking so make sure you're OK when you go to bed.

Having type 1 diabetes is no longer a death sentence and we are lucky for that. If there's one thing it teaches you though, it's that you have to rely on yourself and learn your body's reactions to things. But that's no bad thing.

It might help if you try to concentrate on getting your family to treat you like a person who happens to have diabetes rather than nothing but a diabetic. I'm sure they only want to help.

I wish you all the best.

Well, I think it's normal of you to want to prove you can take care of yourself, but I also think you should only go so far to "prove" your point, if that makes any sense. If my understanding of diabetes is correct, then alcohol consumed in large quantities is dangerous as it converted into sugar. So yeah, prove your point, just don't kill yourself in the process.

People worry because they care. I think that perhaps while it is a little normal to be annoyed, you're also overreacting to a certain degree. Of course people are going to be worried. It would be unnatural if they weren't.

You have a right to get annoyed but it's a little odd for you to give so much of a crap about what the "media" says about this condition. To be quite honest I think that you focus on it so much that any thing that is said on T.V. about it gets to you in an unhealthy way. In all actuality I have seen very little about the subject in the media. Yes they tell you to check for Type II but other than that there is little media coverage (at least from where I sit). If people don't understand that you have a different condition and they ask then tell them about it, inform them, or don't complain...ignorance is easily fixed with knowledge.

As far as your drinking to "prove" a point that you can handle yourself...I think that is a cop-out. You don't prove anything about your capabilities by making bad choices deliberatly. Your boyfriend and parents SHOULD be worried about you in that aspect. You can be a normal teen just know that being a stupid one will only get more people on your back.

Good Luck!
~Peace~