Sadie Mae, when I was a child then teen with T-1, I hid my disease from everyone. I didn't want to be preceived as "weak." I wasn't weak then and I am not weak now, but I allowed my mind to decide what other people would say and think. I was wrong. The diabetic police are everywhere, "can you eat that?" "don't you need to check your blood sugar?" "how can you inject or have that pump in you?", etc. Idiots! But consider that even most doctors do not understand diabetes how can the non-medical people begin to understand??? So...find your sense of humor and combat idiots with humor and see if that doesn't help. Because this aspect of the living with disease does not get better with age.
Do the best you can when you can and the heck to the rest of the world. Peace.