Misunderstandings of Type 1 Diabetes in the community

That's an interesting one. I think it does show up occasionally, but I'd have to say I don't think there is really a significant amount of exposure to it in terms of general media. If I talk to people who I work with or friends of mine, obviously a lot of friends mine, I've known I've had it for years and years, but there's still a very limited understanding of what it is in terms of, you know, what does insulin do? Does this just mean that we're never to give you any food that's not entirely, you know, water-based? And those sort of false assumptions are easily correctable. Indeed, it's one of the things that it's actually quite nice to do is give people a bit of an education about it. But it is, you know, I think this is not unique to diabetes, I think that's a challenge for all non-visible illness. It's not something that will immediately cross people's minds and I would struggle to point to specific bits of pop culture where you say they mentioned diabetes and it's inaccurate. I mean I shouldn't mention any of them at all to be frank. If you think about very famous people in the UK, Steve Redgrave, the ROA, most people don't know that they're diabetic and I don't think that's due to any shame or anything like that, you know, as much as I can speak for anybody about the condition, I just think it's a very hard thing to identify if you don't live in that world. So the one thing I would say is with glucose monitors now with people patches on their arms, you can occasionally work it out without having to ask them, so perhaps there's a bit more visibility there but I wouldn't say that there is frankly enough media exposure to be able to form a view on how it's perceived by the general population.