{"id":190605,"date":"2010-01-17T09:06:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T14:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/introductions-and-announcements\/47697-closeted-diabetic-type-1-a.html"},"modified":"2010-01-17T09:06:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T14:06:07","slug":"closeted-diabetic-type-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/190605","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Closeted&#8221; Diabetic &#8211; Type 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hi Everyone!  I have had Type 1 for 15 years and while many people know this about me, many do not.  If you saw me, you would think I was the picture of good health&#8230;I exercise vigorously, dress fashionably and some people say I am very energetic.  I am 38 but could probably pass for 32.  This is because I am borderline obsessed with nutrition, fitness, taking supplements and living a health lifestyle.  I do love sweets and do indulge more than I should at times.<\/p>\n<p>Before I was diagnosed I didn&#8217;t realize how lucky I was to have good health and I ate, drank and abused by body.  After being diagnosed, I realized I could either feel sorry for myself or make the best of it.  For the most part, I have made the best of it.<\/p>\n<p>So, why do I keep this HUGE part of my life secret?  There are many reasons.  I am afraid of being discriminated against at work, I want to fit in and be treated like everyone else and sometimes it&#8217;s simply a matter of not knowing when to bring it up and sometimes I just want to forget about having it.<\/p>\n<p>So, joining this forum is hopefully the first step in me becoming more open about this and letting everyone know  you CAN have a full and healthy life w\/ diabetes.  Being diabetic really has helped me live life to the fullest and appreciate everything I have&#8230;don&#8217;t get me wrong, I have my down days, sometimes down weeks but I eventually pick myself up and start again.<\/p>\n<p>So, looking forward to joining and learning from you all.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone! I have had Type 1 for 15 years and while many people know this about me, many do not. If you saw me, you would think I was the picture of good health&#8230;I exercise vigorously, dress fashionably and some people say I am very energetic. I am 38 but could probably pass for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}