After I was diagnosed, I had to come to terms with my feelings about whether I caused my diabetes. I mean I know I made certain choices in my life which certainly did not help, but in the end it became clear to me that diabetes just happens. It probably has a genetic component, it probably has some environmental component, but in either case, almost nobody here “gave” themselves diabetes. And coming to terms with that yourself is an important part about accepting the way your are. Who needs additional “guilt crap” on top of what we have to deal with every day.
Now that does not mean we won’t encounter people everyday who think otherwise. Oh, “So and So got diabetes cause they pigged out and got fat.” Well that is just not true. The fact is that we all know people that can eat all kinds of total junk and not get fat. Basically, type 2 diabetes become glucose intolerant and they gain weight as a “symptom” of a condition.
I’ll occaisonally try to educate people who make comments like that. Instead, most of the time, I remind myself that they suffer just like me. “I don’t know why I got my diabetes and they don’t know why they have a wicked case of stupid.”