Not My Type
The magazine for life with diabetes. No pity, no clichés.
Manifesto
Diabetes is not just a number. It is a rhythm of readings, decisions and everyday life – full of stories nobody has told yet. Not my type. tells them. Loud, smart, beautiful.
Stories
View all →This sentence is not a compliment
Why well-meant remarks can hurt – and what we can say instead.
Time in range
What the sensor really measures – and why a single value never tells the whole story.
Type 1 is not type 2
Two conditions, one word: the explainer to send along.
The sensor on the arm
Visible technology, visible confidence: people design their devices instead of hiding them.
Three in the morning
On alarms, hypos and the sleep that is never quite deep.
A hundred years of insulin
Discovered in 1921, millions of lives changed since: a journey in six stages.
A day in data
24 hours
in range?
Getting up. The value is calm – the day can begin.
Numbers that stick
of adolescents and young adults with type 1 report experiences of stigma.
Brazeau et al., 2018How often those affected experience type 1 being confused with type 2.
Campaign survey, n = 70The year insulin was discovered. Since then type 1 has been treatable, but not curable.
Medical historySentences we never want to hear again
Are you even allowed to eat that? You're diabetic, after all.
You don't look like you have diabetes.
One more donut and I'll get diabetes too.
Didn't you get that from too much sugar?
Can't you just work it off?
More sentences.
More answers.
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