I never get the logic of what goes through the dia-splainers’ heads. As they explain about the simplicity of reversing diabetes with cinnamon or some herbal root as if we’d simply choose to live with this life-threatening disease because we missed an episode of Dr. Oz. Do they think we’d miss the award of the Nobel prize for medicine when the cure for diabetes actually appears?
Dia-splaining, it’s a good word!
laughing uncontrollably at this phrase
“Dr.” Oz he is, but a “Wizard of Medicine” he is definitely not!
I like dia-splaining. It fits my niece perfectly. Her dad was T1, so of course she is a leading-edge expert. (I’m sure you read between the lines perfectly.) 
When I read this post, I could all but hear the voice of Desi Arnaz yelling to Lucille Ball, “Lucy, you have some dia-splaining to do!”
I often wonder how a cardiothoracic surgeon could stray so far from his original mission in life.
ROFLMAO 
Closely followed by, “Ai yi yi yi yi!”
Have to say, I dated more when I was on 2 shots a day (yea I’m that old) and it was kind of easy to keep in the background at least until you felt the time was right. I remember 1’st school year after being DX’d, asked a girl out and she said yes so I say “well I’m diabetic, if that makes any difference” She looked at me confused and said “I don’t think so”… Pretty new territory for 14-15 year old kids, lol. Thus began my career of diabetic womanizer 
Had some fun for a good while until one gal finally nailed me down at 30. Divorced since 2000 and few years (no pump) dating then got hooked on minimed and I definitely slowed down. Current GF has type 1’s in family and pretty much knew the drills, been with her a while now!
I don’t want to limit myself to dating a diabetic. Plus, then I would always worry about her diabetes as well as mine.
I’ve had diabetes since 1994 and I feel like shots made it easier to blend in. I’ve been pumping since 2001 and have only gotten negative responses. Unfortunately, the girls who didn’t accept my diabetes were the girls who didn’t know what diabetes was. There was no use in explaining it to them. Once they saw the “gear” they would get up and leave - literally! One girl left me at dinner. Saw me pumping, asked me what it was, I told her, she got concerned and said “I got to go the restroom”, and never returned. Forgot exactly what happened after that but I think I texted her and she replied with something cruel. Now it hasn’t been all too bad. The girls who were okay with my diabetes generally weren’t also okay with my pump (no one’s been ok with my pump), but those girls were doctors, nurses, nutritionists, etc. I’m 29 years old and haven’t dated since I was 25. I really don’t feel like doing it anymore. I shouldn’t have to suffer for someone else’s ignorance.
An old boyfriend told me that I had the sweetest kisses ever. Later later he jokingly added it must be because of my being a diabetic.
I always tell everyone that I have diabetes, as soon as I know we’re going to become friends. I also tell them how I act when I’m low. Before I got my meter in 1983, I’d say I have to check my urine for sugar and that would cause conversations. My having injections before meals was something people wanted to watch. I also had to tell everyone that when I got too low, I would get angry. When I was 7 or 8, I gave a girlfriend a black eye.
None of the guys I ever dated thought it was bad or terrible that I was a diabetic. They were interested in how I “coped” with the disease. How I caught it. Could they catch it.
Personally I think if you’re comfortable with it and can talk about, sometimes dumbing things down so the non-diabetic can understand, that helps.
This is a fascinating topic and a great window into other people’s views (ignorant or otherwise) of diabetes. In a way it was my recent diagnosis at age 40 that brought my girlfriend back to me (we had been apart for about a year). She didn’t like the idea of me dealing with this alone. She still has a lot to learn, but the last time I had an appointment with my endo I invited her along and she sat there in the examination room with me and the doctor and learned a ton.
Overall I feel that for someone to be comfortable with your diabetes, you need to be comfortable with it yourself. You need to own it, in a sense. If you’re not comfortable sharing it, how is someone going to be comfortable accepting it? I haven’t really dated since my diagnosis, but when I was dating there were definitely certain things I would throw out there right in the beginning, like the fact that I don’t want children, or that I’m vegetarian. Basically, I wanted my date to know what she was getting into before she got in too far. Having a permanent medical condition is much different that, say, being a vegetarian (it’s not like people seek out diabetics, but vegetarians often seek out other vegetarians). But it’s similar. It’s what makes you who you are and you should be proud of it.
Good luck, and have fun!