before you criticise
I’ve never had anyone criticize me for eating sugar. Back when I was using syringes, I WOULD GET SIDEWAYS GLANCES, or sour faces, but that’s all.
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I remember the same strange looks. And that was probably because they thought I was a druggie. I remember being questioned by a woman in a restaurant lavatory about whether I ate their soft-serve ice cream. I answered that I did not eat it but had to use insulin for the sandwiches they served. I appreciated her curiosity and the opportunity to impart information.
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Ugh. I’ve been questioned about eating sugar, or told that I can’t eat something many times… often at work, or extended family. I know it’s well meaning, but annoying nonetheless. I appreciate that some t1d’s see this as a teaching moment, but at this point I have a hard time not responding sarcastically.
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Sarcasm is a teaching moment too. 
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Never “criticized”. Have had many opportunities for explanation. Funniest has been when camping and eating with others (bike tours, trail maintenance trips) and I’m sitting there with a repacked jar of PEG-3350 (aka Miralax). It looks exactly like sucrose and dissolves like it, so that’s something I have had the opportunity to explain. 
I had to tell my family to stop buying me “diabetic” chocolate. I love chocolate and I want to eat the real thing. And the real thing won’t give me cramps or worse.