#worlddiabetesday and also two years to the day since I went to A&E thinking I was just a bit stressed & left three days later with a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. This is what I’ve learned in two years of managing a chronic condition that most people think is a joke 🧵: 1. It’s physically exhausting. Essentially your body is trying to kill you and spending a lot of energy on that, so it makes everything else twice as tiring as it was before. Be nice to your friends with diabetes, they are exhausted.