Depends on your friends :-)<p>I have a friend who jokingly tells people &quot;Yeah, I&#x27;ve got proper diabetes, not fat bastard diabetes.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t think the wish people ill who have Type 2, but I do think they want people to know it&#x27;s through no fault of their own.<p>It&#x27;s bit like if a non-smoker had lung cancer. I expect they would be at pains to make clear that they didn&#x27;t catch it through smoking; that they were unlucky rather than unwise.