First significant memories of having Type 1 diabetes.

So, I was diagnosed when I was about 18 months old, so obviously I don't have any memory of that particular time, but when I was very young, going through primary school and that sort of thing. I think like a lot of children, I didn't, you know, you don't really understand what it is, in some ways, it was almost a positive thing, I actually felt a little bit special, but you know, I could, you know, have a snack when other people in class weren't allowed to, and that sort of thing, you know, I was lucky in that my parents are being fully suited and booted and helping me deal with it. And so it never really seems to me to be a negative thing, or something to be concerned about until much later in my life. I think, by the time I was in secondary school, obviously, you start to take a bit more ownership over your own health and indeed everything else at that point. So there's a bit of a scaling up in in in sort of your understanding of the condition you have. But really, if I, you know, if I was to say there were a point where I realised that actually, this is good, this is a major impact on my life, generally, through everything, I said, probably when I got to university and started really kind of living under my own steam. And you start to appreciate at that point, you know, how it impacts and everything you do, and actually more what, where there are distinctions with people who don't have diabetes in terms of how you manage your individual lifestyles.