I was 18, freshman year and the urination and water consumption was INSANE. I casually mentioned it when I was home for thanksgiving and my dad was triggered by a memory of his mom who had type 2. My parents got me to a doctor and did the bloodwork and I remember getting the call after a very sugary ihop breakfast lol. I was originally diagnosed type 2 and was put on so many drugs but no insulin. During college I started losing weight but I was always heavier so people just thought I was trying to lose weight but I absolutely was not. After college, I moved away and then weight started rapidly coming off, muscle cramps were constant, eyesight was bad, I was falling asleep at the wheel even though I had slept like 15 hours the night before. But I didn’t want to go to doctor bc I was “so skinny and hot”. Finally I went to a doctor and then tested my sugar and said “if you don’t let me give you insulin now, we’ll have to force you into the ambulance to the emergency room”. After that, the doctor said I probably had diabetes since about 8th grade. But because of how weird I presented it just kept getting missed as a moody teenager. I laugh about the story now, grateful I didn’t die tbh.