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      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      If you use an insulin pump that comes with a clip, how often do you have your pump clip attached to your pump?
      The more important question is 'how well does the clip work'. For me, the Medtronic clip worked very well, but the Tandem clip is quite ineffective and the pump falls off my belt during things like yard work or other bending movements.
    • 3 hours, 20 minutes ago
      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      If you use an insulin pump that comes with a clip, how often do you have your pump clip attached to your pump?
      I answered never. I always use a clip -- I wear my t:slim x2 on my belt -- but not the Tandem clip. I use the black t:Holster Rotating Belt Clip. Very pleased.
    • 3 hours, 21 minutes ago
      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      If you use an insulin pump that comes with a clip, how often do you have your pump clip attached to your pump?
      I am rough on pumps and use a Tandem X2 but dont use the Tandem clip/holster. I use a neoprene case and a pouch with a metal clip. Thenmetal clip is uncomfortable while I sleep. Looking for a different solution for wearing my pump at night.
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      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      I answered that nobody wants to be screened, but I was answering based on my immediate family. I did let my deceased type-1 diabetic cousin's 35 year old son know he can be tested for his likelihood of becoming type-1 diabetic. He said he may be tested as he was always curious if he had a chance.
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      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      I have T1, and when my oldest grandson got T1, the other 3 grandkids got screened. The grandson who's the brother of the one with T1, showed a strong possibility of being a future T1 diabetic. It sadly came true about a year later.
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      Wanacure likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      I have LADA, and the idea of screening has not come up, either by me or my adult children. I guess I need to present the opportunity to them so they can make the decision.
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      Wanacure likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      Hi Kristen, thanks so much for your feedback. We do plan to continue questions and education on T1D screening. The constantly evolving clinical trials and FDA-approved therapies that offer the potential to intervene, delay —— and hopefully some day prevent —— T1D are only effective if children are being screened for the earliest stages of T1D. Without screening, we cannot delay or prevent T1D. We do offer "No, my family members have no been screened" as an option. We appreciate your passion as a person affected by T1D and hope you enjoy our other daily questions. All the best, The T1D Exchange team
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      Samantha Walsh likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      I was born in 1939 and had many childhood illnesses. Three different kinds of measles and tonsils removed before I was 5 years old, then mumps and chickenpox when I was 5. While recovering from the mumps and chickenpox, I began showing the symptoms of very high blood sugar. Three doctors examined me and they were not able to make a diagnosis. I had lost much weight, and I had stopped eating. I did not have an appetite. It was almost impossible for me to walk. A fourth doctor had my blood tested and he made the diagnosis. While receiving pork insulin I finally began to recover a few days after my sixth birthday. I did not have ant relatives with diabetes. I think the childhood diseases caused internal damage and that was the cause of my diabetes. At the present time there are still no type one diabetics among my relatives. I do not believe it is necessary for my children and grandchildren to be screened for T1D autoantibodies.
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      KarenM6 likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      Hi Kristen, thanks so much for your feedback. We do plan to continue questions and education on T1D screening. The constantly evolving clinical trials and FDA-approved therapies that offer the potential to intervene, delay —— and hopefully some day prevent —— T1D are only effective if children are being screened for the earliest stages of T1D. Without screening, we cannot delay or prevent T1D. We do offer "No, my family members have no been screened" as an option. We appreciate your passion as a person affected by T1D and hope you enjoy our other daily questions. All the best, The T1D Exchange team
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      Katie Bennett likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      Hi Kristen, thanks so much for your feedback. We do plan to continue questions and education on T1D screening. The constantly evolving clinical trials and FDA-approved therapies that offer the potential to intervene, delay —— and hopefully some day prevent —— T1D are only effective if children are being screened for the earliest stages of T1D. Without screening, we cannot delay or prevent T1D. We do offer "No, my family members have no been screened" as an option. We appreciate your passion as a person affected by T1D and hope you enjoy our other daily questions. All the best, The T1D Exchange team
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      Kate Kuhn likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      Hi Kristen, thanks so much for your feedback. We do plan to continue questions and education on T1D screening. The constantly evolving clinical trials and FDA-approved therapies that offer the potential to intervene, delay —— and hopefully some day prevent —— T1D are only effective if children are being screened for the earliest stages of T1D. Without screening, we cannot delay or prevent T1D. We do offer "No, my family members have no been screened" as an option. We appreciate your passion as a person affected by T1D and hope you enjoy our other daily questions. All the best, The T1D Exchange team
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      Karen DeVeaux likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      I was born in 1939 and had many childhood illnesses. Three different kinds of measles and tonsils removed before I was 5 years old, then mumps and chickenpox when I was 5. While recovering from the mumps and chickenpox, I began showing the symptoms of very high blood sugar. Three doctors examined me and they were not able to make a diagnosis. I had lost much weight, and I had stopped eating. I did not have an appetite. It was almost impossible for me to walk. A fourth doctor had my blood tested and he made the diagnosis. While receiving pork insulin I finally began to recover a few days after my sixth birthday. I did not have ant relatives with diabetes. I think the childhood diseases caused internal damage and that was the cause of my diabetes. At the present time there are still no type one diabetics among my relatives. I do not believe it is necessary for my children and grandchildren to be screened for T1D autoantibodies.
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      Kelly-Dayne likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      Hi Kristen, thanks so much for your feedback. We do plan to continue questions and education on T1D screening. The constantly evolving clinical trials and FDA-approved therapies that offer the potential to intervene, delay —— and hopefully some day prevent —— T1D are only effective if children are being screened for the earliest stages of T1D. Without screening, we cannot delay or prevent T1D. We do offer "No, my family members have no been screened" as an option. We appreciate your passion as a person affected by T1D and hope you enjoy our other daily questions. All the best, The T1D Exchange team
    • 2 days, 2 hours ago
      William Bennett likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      Hi Kristen, thanks so much for your feedback. We do plan to continue questions and education on T1D screening. The constantly evolving clinical trials and FDA-approved therapies that offer the potential to intervene, delay —— and hopefully some day prevent —— T1D are only effective if children are being screened for the earliest stages of T1D. Without screening, we cannot delay or prevent T1D. We do offer "No, my family members have no been screened" as an option. We appreciate your passion as a person affected by T1D and hope you enjoy our other daily questions. All the best, The T1D Exchange team
    • 2 days, 3 hours ago
      Jneticdiabetic likes your comment at
      Have you ever participated in a charity fundraising event that benefitted a diabetes organization (i.e., a walk, marathon, gala, etc.)?
      I have led a team for the JDRF OneWalk annually since the late 1990's. We have been able to raise a lot of funds for JDRF...and I have enjoyed doing it. Good cause!
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      Lawrence S. likes your comment at
      If you or someone in your family has T1D, have other members of your family been screened for T1D autoantibodies? If not, do you think your family would be willing to be screened for T1D autoantibodies?
      my siblings & parents are older (like me) and they've never expressed any interest in getting tested. my nieces and nephews have never said anything either
    • 2 days, 14 hours ago
      Karen Newe likes your comment at
      Have you ever participated in a charity fundraising event that benefitted a diabetes organization (i.e., a walk, marathon, gala, etc.)?
      I participated in several ADA walks not long after being Dx with T1D. As Ahh Life points out large $ are rased, but where do they go? I stopped supporting ADA for that reason. I think JDF is much more open on where the funding goes.
    • 2 days, 14 hours ago
      Karen Newe likes your comment at
      Have you ever participated in a charity fundraising event that benefitted a diabetes organization (i.e., a walk, marathon, gala, etc.)?
      JDRF only. I like knowing that my contributions are going specifically to T1D.
    • 2 days, 14 hours ago
      Karen Newe likes your comment at
      Have you ever participated in a charity fundraising event that benefitted a diabetes organization (i.e., a walk, marathon, gala, etc.)?
      I have led a team for the JDRF OneWalk annually since the late 1990's. We have been able to raise a lot of funds for JDRF...and I have enjoyed doing it. Good cause!
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      The last time you discussed adding a new device or medication to your T1D management routine with your health care provider, who initially suggested trying the new device or medication?
      Switched a long time ago to Tandem/Dexcom from Minimed because of improved and more automated control, and haven't looked back. Still wishing for a cure, but know it's not going to happen for dinosaurs like me. I'll just be glad when young people will will one day experience that magic word: cure. It's too easy to sit around and complain, but it's high time for a cure, and way past time having us depend on treatment that is pretty much a money maker for big Pharma when it seems as if there's a cure waiting in the wings. Filling up landfills with used pump supplies, etc., makes our society look nothing but incompetent and greedy. Sorry to rant.......
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      The last time you discussed adding a new device or medication to your T1D management routine with your health care provider, who initially suggested trying the new device or medication?
      They do too often. Why I ask? Well because it will help long term.... oh how do you know that it will help? It's a brand new medication, never been used by the D community, except for the shortest term study mandated in order to get it to market, and sell. Long term has never been achieved... its NEW. Let's revisit/wait a couple years... if its MAGIC medicine, sure I'll try it. But unless it's got magic properties, guarantees magic results why would I want it, until it's been used for a decent while??? Oh well... yeah, guess that does makes sense....
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      Wanacure likes your comment at
      Does your T1D health care provider currently offer the option to have virtual appointments (via phone or video call)?
      Yes and for the last year and a half that is exclusively what I have been offered so I am not getting all the usual checks an in person endo visit requires. ADA and others spent 10-20 years convincing endos they needed to check patients feet and that progress has evaporated.
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      Does your T1D health care provider currently offer the option to have virtual appointments (via phone or video call)?
      I would rather see in person. He checks my feet, BP etc. we have a chance to catch up and for me to ask questions. To me so much better face to face. We did virtual during pandemic.
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      If you use an insulin pump, do you currently have a protective case on your pump or PDM?
      I’ll occasionally use the holster with clip that came with my pump or a protective case of my own when I’m wearing something without pockets. However I find these quite bulky thus usually just slip my pump in a pocket.
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      Of the people in your life, who (if anyone) makes you feel judged or criticized for your T1D management (for example, what foods you eat, where or when you check your blood glucose, etc.)? Select all that apply to you.
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    At the time of your T1D diagnosis, did you already personally know anyone who had T1D?

    Home > LC Polls > At the time of your T1D diagnosis, did you already personally know anyone who had T1D?
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    Sarah Howard

    Sarah Howard (nee Tackett) has dedicated her career to supporting the T1D community ever since she was diagnosed with T1D while in college in May 2013. Since then, she has worked for various diabetes organizations, focusing on research, advocacy, and community-building efforts for people with T1D and their loved ones. Sarah is currently the Senior Manager of Marketing at T1D Exchange. Sarah and her husband live in NYC with their cat Gracie. In her spare time, she enjoys doing comedy, taking dance classes, visiting art museums, and exploring different neighborhoods in NYC.

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    48 Comments

    1. Lisa La Nasa

      My mom and my brother had both been dx many years earlier.

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    2. Jneticdiabetic

      I wish I had! I learned a few lessons the hard way. I was 18 at diagnosis and referred directly to an adult endocrinologist. I took a diabetes education class, but was the only type 1. It was probably 5 years before I met another T1D. I’ve learned a lot from fellow T1Ds since then. I try to pay it forward and offer myself up as a a “dia-buddy” and advocate for the newly diagnosed and/or their worried parents. I also refer folks to platforms like this which have made it so much easier to connect with people who live it. We’re in this together!

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    3. Wanacure

      I knew my elder cousin had T1D, but did not know she was injecting insulin or was on a diet. She was at least four or five years older than I and she kept to herself. Everyone acted as if T1D did not exist probably to “spare our feelings.”

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    4. Christine Gran

      We did, but we had no idea about what it meant or any of the challenges or complications associated with this disease.

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    5. Jennifer Wieczorek

      I worked in group home setting and we had someone that got insulin but we had to count sodium for him

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    6. cynthia jaworski

      Not until I went to diabetic camp.

      Ii didn’t know what t1d was, anyway, at the age of 10.

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    7. Janice Bohn

      No – but many years later I met a cousin who told me my Great Aunt had T1D.
      Since all of my extended family lives in Sweden there is much I do not know.

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    8. Lawrence S.

      1977 – I was 23 yrs old. No, I did not know anyone with any diabetes, T1D or T2D. I did not know what diabetes was. I had heard the term “sugar diabetes”, so I figured it had something to do with sugar. But, I had no idea what I was about to get into. That may have been a good thing, because I did not get excited or depressed when my doctor told me the diagnosis.

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    9. Mick Martin

      A younger sibling developed T1 about 20 years prior to my own diagnosis. In those days he had to attend a ‘special school’ more than 10 miles away from our home as other schools didn’t have the facilities to deal with someone that had T1.

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    10. Annie Wall

      I had known one person, a teenager at a school and residential treatment center. I had no understanding of it and was mystified when he ate a chocolate bar while we were on a hike. Little did I know that a few years later, I would fully understand why he needed that chocolate bar!

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    11. Barbara Bubar

      I was 4-1/2 in 1950 and my parents knew no one although my mother said that after my diagnosis she remembered a distant relative who was an early Joslin patient.

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    12. KCR

      I knew a woman with lifelong T1D who had died due to complications some years before my diagnosis. Very sad…

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      1. Lynn Smith

        I said No, but I should have said Yes. I had a cousin who was adopted who was diagnosed at age 2.

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    13. William Bennett

      Total no. Thought I’d had one personal experience. Around 1977, few years before my dx (1983), I’d been playing a gig when a guy in the audience had a catastrophic low and went into convulsions. Interesting thing is that he was in his twenties, had just been dx’d, and was on a kind of spree–not dealing with it very well. This was from his friends who were along with him. Years later when I was finally dx’d I thought of the episode, and I still do, as kind of a reminder of what the whole thing seems like from the outside. No one seemed to know what to do for the guy, lots of people offering advice–stick a knife between his teeth to make sure he doesn’t swallow his tongue, being one idiot thing I remember, before some intelligent person got some sugar into him. For my own part I remember having no idea, just some vague notion that this was what could happen to diabetics. Didn’t help with my own dx later on, though. I had NO idea what was causing my symptoms until my wife happened to talk to my MIL, who had medical background, and she said “get him to a doctor NOW!”

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    14. Nicholas Argento

      I was 8 years old. Had never heard of diabetes. My parents did know of people who had T1D, and they had not done well, not surprising in that era. My first endo told me about a professional tennis player who had T1D.

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    15. Tom Rintelmann

      I didn’t know my maternal Grandfather but he was a T1D.

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    16. kilupx

      My brother was just he only one I knew. He got type 1 when we were children and the whole household ate his diet. He had died by the time I was diagnosed with LADA at age 66, so technically you could say I did not know anyone with T1D at the time of my diagnosis.

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    17. Karington Johnston

      I said yes, I’d had friends with type 1 in the past (elementary and high school) but I didn’t really talk with them anymore. I was diagnosed in college, at 20.

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    18. Ken Raiche

      I knew a total of three people when I was diagnosed. Fortunately for me, one of these three people was my brother and the other two were close friends. I’ve got to admit it made the transition into being a T1D that much easier.

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    19. dholl62@gmail.com

      Yes I did . My maternal grandmother, and my mother
      who passed on when I was 4 years old .

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    20. Tom Caesar

      At 19 had no awareness or knowledge on diabetes. I’m the only lucky one in my family to have it!

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    21. Marty

      I had an older cousin with T1D. I remember that my aunt worried a lot about her not taking care of herself especially after she left home for college. My mother said “Thank goodness we don’t have diabetes in our family.” I inferred that my cousin was adopted and I believed that for decades. Turned out my mother was just referencing the fact that my cousin was on my father’s side of the family. Ironically, a different cousin on my mother’s side was diagnosed a few years after I was.

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    22. rick phillips

      Yes aunt and mom

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    23. Carol Meares

      I had cousins with T1D

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    24. Kristine Warmecke

      Yes, my brother who’s diagnosed at 7 months old.

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    25. Trina Blake

      Not at all, no one with any type of D. I sure wish I had. I was 30 and initially Dx’d with T2 due to age (this was when it was juvenile onset or adult onset). I had no risk factors for T2D, but then I didn’t know anyone with D and there was no D of any type in my family so I wasn’t aware of “risk factors”. If I had known someone with D (again of any type) and my Dx wasn’t pre-internet, chances are I would have asked questions and been told that perhaps I needed further testing.

      I was Dx’d with T2 and sent on my way. I had one follow up appt, got scolded and “put on the needle”, NpH 15 units in the morning. Again sent on my way. Finally found in a coma from DKA by a neighbor. Fortunately my day job was with a large city fire dept. WHen the neighbor called to say I wasn’t gonna be at work that day, they figured out that 9-1-1 and to be called and dispatched from HQ. Saved my life. That’s when I got the correct Dx.

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      1. Janis Senungetuk

        Wow, how fortunate your neighbor found you and how, just by chance, you received the emergency medical help you needed! Did you let the MD who missed the correct dx. know what happened?

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    26. Henry Renn

      I’m fairly certain my parents didn’t personally know any T1s.

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    27. Greg Felton

      Sort of an unfair question, since I was diagnosed at a young age when I knew only members immediate family, but my answer is no.

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    28. Janis Senungetuk

      My maternal grandfather was dx as a young adult but that was before there was a distinction made between types. He used beef/pork insulin. When I was dx in 1955 my parents knew of relatives on both sides who had died before the discovery/use of insulin, but they kept that history to themselves. At 8 years old I made the diabetes connection with my grandfather when I overheard him say he was going to the pharmacy to buy some insulin. Medical issues were not talked about in my family, even among family members.

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    29. Bob Durstenfeld

      Yes, I was 18 months old, my father was the first in our family to have T1D, later two of my younger brothers developed it, as well as my eldest son and his eldest daughter.

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    30. Pauline M Reynolds

      My nephew was diagnoed just three months before I was. He was 11; I was 46.

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    31. M C

      A classmate had it. She didn’t give herself her own insulin injections – her father did it for her…. which, long before I ever was diagnosed with T1D, I found extremely odd. (This was over 47 years ago)

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    32. AnitaS

      I was 9 years old when diagnosed and I knew that my cousin who was 10 years older than I was gave herself injections, but I never knew why. I didn’t inquire as I guess it never occured to me to ask why. When I was diagnosed, it was then that I learned why my cousin gave herself shots and I was going to have to also.

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    33. Jan Masty

      Just my younger brother. I never met anyone else while I was growing up (60’s). And I went to a high school with over 2000 kids. Interesting . There are many more now. Most grade schools have at least 1 or 2 students that are t1 d.

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    34. Becky Hertz

      1974, two other girls in my small town had t1d.

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    35. KSannie

      I had never heard of the term “diabetes” when I was diagnosed in 1969. The first person I ever met who also had it was a friend of my husband’s, about 1992.

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    36. Kathleen Juzenas

      I said no. Actually my older brother was diagnosed in his mid-twenties (just like me). I knew him when we were younger but he had already moved out of state by the time of his diagnosis and did not share with me his experiences.

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    37. Melinda Lipe

      I did not ever know any other T1Ds until I attended Diabetes camp. After that, it was many more years.

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    38. Joan Fray

      Yes, my dad had T1. My diagnosi made him and my mom so sad. I tried hard to make it no big deal so they wouldn’t worry.

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    39. Lenora Ventura

      Yes. My dad also diagnosed when he was 9, his baby sister diagnosed w/ in 6 months of his diagnosis when she was 5, and his older brother who was diagnosed @ 33.

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    40. Kathleen Begbie

      My brother, my cousin and my sister-in-law

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    41. vbaum1956

      Yes my Dad had contracted T1D about 10 yrs before I was diagnosed at 9.

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    42. T1D4LongTime

      From age 6, until nearly age 18, I never knew anyone with T1D. My paternal grandmother had T2D and was on insulin. Didn’t know about camps, endocrinologists, support groups, or anything current about diabetes at age 6

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    43. ConnieT1D62

      I didn’t know anybody else with T1 diabetes at time of diagnosis in Dec 1962. I was 8 years old. While in hospital, my MD sent an 11 year old girl with T1D who was his patient to visit me. She did her best to offer an explanation of what “sugar diabetes” was all about. I didn’t quite understand what she was talking about. I didn’t meet others with T1D until I went to overnight camp for kids with diabetes in June 1963 – then I dozens of kids, teens, young adults, and adults living with diabetes.

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    44. Mary Ann Sayers

      I was just a kid! A 7+ year old little girl who had had a double hernia operation 6 months earlier.
      Since T1D is an autoimmune disease it’s possible that I was exposed to a virus that resulted in my diagnosis. Up until that point, no family member was diabetic.

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    45. PamK

      l had an uncle who was and a friend of my mother’s was also a Type 1.

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    46. BonL

      Too young to know.

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