Any Type 1's in the Charleston, SC area?

[MarieB]

welcome to our community @LHromika - I hope you can meet up with others in Charleston, and I hope you enjoy what we do here. Our founder is also a LADA, and we have many here who understand it well. Look around and join any discussions that interest you or start one of your own. You might want to read this one that I think is really good

Melitta's Top Ten Tips for the Newly Diagnosed Person with Adult-Onset Type 1 Diabetes

Despite what you may be told by medical professionals and what you might read, you (as a person with adult-onset Type 1 diabetes) are not “rare” or some “minority.” Adults represent the vast majority of new-onset Type 1 diabetes (Footnote 1); it is a widespread myth and falsehood that Type 1 diabetes is a childhood disease. Learn all you can, but at a pace that does not overwhelm you. Good sources of learning are Think Like a Pancreas by Gary Scheiner (although he does perpetuate some myths a…