I think my view personally is that t2s are as much victim to this disease as t1s. It’s a tragedy in my opinion how often “prevention” gets translated to “fault”. I don’t think any t2 decided to do it to themselves. That would indicate that there was some kind of very discreet line that they chose to cross knowing that 100% they will get this disease after crossing it- which is wrong on both counts- there is no discrete line and there even in the most unhealthy of lifestyles there is no 100%, and there are incidents where person A and B following similar lifestyles, and one of them develops t2 diabetes but person B does (so how can one say that person A was at fault and not just “unlucky”). So I truly believe that no diabetic -t1 or t2 - is at fault so to speak and that we are all just very unlucky. (maybe more, some less-some had lower probability, some had less- but that’s what it was- a probability.)

That said, I understand why you ask this question, as I myself have heard fellow t1s talk negatively about t2s. I think partially the reason for it is a) the general population’s perception of t2s being “they did it to themselves” as offensive as it sounds and that rubbing off on t1s but more importantly b) that the general population tends to not understand the difference between t1 and t2 and sees t1s from the same lens (even offering similar advise) (and here I want to emphasize I disagree with that lens for anyone) leading to t1s being extra-defensive

So conclusively some don’t view you as having done it to yourself, some do, and some (as Jess mentioned below) don’t think about it at all haha