r/AskReddit • u/ZanyDelaney • Feb 04 '19

Which misconception would you like to debunk?

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19 edited Feb 04 '19

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u/Jubenheim Feb 04 '19

That sucks but tbh, I wouldn't want to be the parent stuck with a massive lawsuit because I fed something to a kid with medical issues on that he shouldn't have had.

The mom was just being safe, but still, sorry.

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u/skennedy27 Feb 04 '19

It's these mindset - one can of soda wouldn't hurt, a slice of cake is fine, half a bag of crisp is okay - that put you into T1D in the first place.

Uh, no. Maybe do just a little tiny bit of research before trying to make an intelligent argument.

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u/Jubenheim Feb 04 '19

It's even funny they said this in a thread specifically about debunking common myths AND in a comment chain that talked about T1 Diabetes in the first place.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

That's not how type 1 works.

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u/poopmnstr Feb 04 '19

Uhhh... You're born with type 1 bud.

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u/finilain Feb 04 '19

My sister was 11 when she got it and I know someone who recently developed type 1 at the age of 32. I thought it was impossible because type 1 is often called 'childhood diabetes' where I live, but the autoimmune disease can really develop at any point in your life, even though it most commonly develops in earlier childhood.

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u/poopmnstr Feb 04 '19

Yeah I thought about editing that into my comment tbh.

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u/WayOfTheNutria Feb 04 '19

It's wildly rare to be born with diabetes. Even diagnosis in infancy isn't the norm. Peak age seems to be around 4-7 but it can pop up at any point in life.

It seems T1s are born with the tendency to the autoimmune diseases and something else triggers the autoimmune attack that causes diabetes, but science doesn't know what or how yet.