Of the 4,833 regular or recurring roles in broadcast, cable and streaming TV, and the roughly 18,100 roles in movies in 2017, 78 of them should be Type 1. In 2017, there was one.
To have a group of people on screen who have lives and interests and desires and also diabetes, to see the different ways personalities interact with the management of diabetes, to have the jokes that we can all tell each other finally up on the screen would be incredible.
The series is intended to be therapeutic, because finding comedy in a crappy situation (having diabetes) can make it easier to cope with that situation."
