“Advancement? Like what?”
Continuous Glucose Monitors. Much more efficient insulin. Insulin pumps. Just to name a few.
“Either a diabetic changes his eating habits and starts to exercise daily (like telling a drug addict to just stop his habit), or he is finished.”
Admittedly, I know very little about type 2 diabetes, but this comment as it relates to type 1 is so way off base it only underscores my previous comment about ignorance. Your comment is not unique to diabetes. We can say the same thing about someone with hypertension, high blood pressure and other medical conditions.
“Most times, either the food contains sugar or will turn into sugar after ingestion.”
And if anyone ingests too much the body stores it, and the person becomes overweight. This has nothing to do with diabetes except the fact that (depending on type 1 or type 2) the body can not break down the sugar at all due to having no insulin or the body can not properly “process” the sugar. Insulin injections for type 1 or the appropriate medication for type 2 takes care of this problem.
“Most diabetics control the disease with diet, medication, and exercise.”
Again, this is true of someone with type 2 only. Someone with type 1, will die without insulin, no matter how healthy a diet.
“Thankfully, most diabetics are already long into their marriages when the disease becomes full blown.”
Juveniele Diabetes. The name alone tells you just how wrong this statement is. Then there is gestational diabetes.
Like everything in life, when it comes to shidduchim decisions can not, and should not be made based on ignorance. Moreover, I personally know a number of people with diabetes who were instructed by Rabbonim not to make the other side aware of their diabetes until after a 2nd or 3rd date (of course this is in a situation where the other side is not aware, many people do not hide their diabetes and it is something that can be learned rather easily. There ARE people who are not quick to publicize their diabetes, and this thread proves their decision correct, since there is so much ignorance in the general population about it).