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Being Type 1 I get a bit fed up with all the whingeing on social media. You know the ones, "no one sees the invisible illness, the scars I bear, the depression and the feeling sick, the feeling tired after overnight hypos" etc etc. Yes, that is part of it, but I always feel there is so much worse. Watch someone die of cancer and tell me you'd rather have that, than Type 1. Watch an interview with a refugee talking about what they have endured. Watch a parent loose a child. Just to put some context around this, I was diagnosed 35 years ago. I've gone from beef insulin to synthetic insulin, from needles to pens to pump, from 4 - 10 finger pricks a day to a CGMS. I count myself lucky that I didn't have to live with sharpening my own needles and boiling them or with only urine tests to track the state of my bgls. I count myself lucky that having this condition has strengthened me, demanding resilience, problem solving and self management skills. I co