Division Doesn’t Help: It Hurts Us All

When I published an article the other day — that had nothing to do with diet — I was attacked by low-carb extremists.

Not for misinformation.
Not for harm.
But for simply sharing my lived experience as a T1D parent.

They tried to twist my words and push the idea that if you just follow their method — low-carb everything — Type 1 becomes easy.

Let me be clear:

A low-carb diet does not make life with Type 1 diabetes easy.
I’ve tried it. Many have.

It doesn’t stop the alarms.
It doesn’t erase the panic at 2am.
It doesn’t make managing hormones, stress, sleep, exercise, illness, growth spurts, or emotions any easier.

It doesn’t eliminate the mental load.
Because this disease is hard. Every day. No matter how you choose to manage it.

But here’s what hit me even harder than the criticism…

The Type 1 community isn’t united.
And that’s heartbreaking.

We are already fighting to be seen.
To be understood.
To be supported.

And yet, we turn on each other over diet, tech, insulin methods, and numbers — as if there’s one "right way" to survive T1D.

That division?
It doesn’t make us stronger.
It makes it easier for the world to misunderstand us.
It fuels the myth that this disease is “manageable if you just try harder.”

It reduces T1D to food, when we know it’s so much more than that.

We don’t need to all agree.
But we do need to respect each other’s path.

Because united, we educate.
Divided, we confuse.

We can do better — and we must do better — for our kids, for the newly diagnosed, for every person fighting this invisible battle.

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