type 1 vs type 2 diabetes - what I think

OK,let's cut the crap on this thing. I'm fuckin sick of the conventional wisdom held by the ignorant, including type 1 diabetics, that type 2 diabetes is a "lifestyle" disease. That is just crap. More and more, research has confirmed that t2d is the result of a myriad of things, including brain chemistry, family history,, chromozones and genes etc., God knows what, as it isn't as neat and clean as type 1 causation. Lifestyle it ain't.

Even t2ds believe the lifestyle crap, and feel that they are to blame for their condition due to laziness, overeating and general lack of character and will power. I'm fed up with that bullshit and I refuse to feel guilty or responsible.

The media and most non-scientific/medical people misinterpret shallow studies that show, correctly, that you will increase the likelihood, worsen the symptoms, or hasten the onset of t2d by getting fat, not exercising, and eating poorly. That is true, but it doesn't mean that any of such things CAUSE t2d.

I'm not a scientist, but I think that t2d has very little to do with t1d, except that they both involve the pancreas and the body's manner of dealing with insulin. Beyond that commonality, the two diseases are very different, and should be treated as such.

Combining the two types of diabetes in public information and education just causes confusion, and in my case, it pisses me off. In Canada, we have just one association (the "CDA")that is supposedly looking after the interests of all diabetics. It caters mostly to childhood and type 1 diabetes.

The time is past due for separating the two types of diabetes in all public forums. T2ds should have their own voice in government lobbying, research and advocacy. Each disease is a medical monster of sufficient importance to justify separation, quite aside from or in addition to the intrinsic invalidity of the present situation of melding and mixing up t2d and t1d.

I've not read anyone else saying this, yet I think many in each category would agree. Let's do it.