Why I cannot possibly have diabetes?

I'm getting older for sure, but I'm only 38 years old, not 98 lol....I guess maybe I am looking for reasons as to why I cannot possibly have diabetes, so far I am not doing a great job at not having it lol...

Age has nothing to do with it. I was fine on my 40th birthday when I had a complete physical and 10 months later, I was diagnosed as Type 2. I ignored symptoms for a long time and attributed them to something else. I've always drank tons of water and I'm a public speaker by profession so I attributed the thirst to speaking so much. The excessive urination just had to be because of the amount of fluids I would consume and my increasing lethargy must definitely be due to my sleep apnea and my CPAP machine not working properly. It wasn't until I started to have difficulty focusing on distant objects that I thought there might be more to it and even then, I at first blamed my poor eyesight on the new contacts I'd just gotten and the fact
that the optometrist obviously messed up with all those better or worse images he made me look at. When I finally went back to my eye doctor to complain about my prescription, he told me my retinas were swollen. I asked what causes that and was told diabetes. I expected to eventually be diagnosed as it ran in my family but of course I was still too young in my mind. That day I drove across town to see my GP and he did a simple finger stick test in the office. I was over 600 and my A1C was 11.9! He immediately put me on oral meds and soon afterwards we added Byetta. I've managed pretty well until recently when my numbers started to climb again and now I'm also on long-acting insulin. To me, the diagnosis wasn't nearly as devastating as it was to members of my family. However, with asthma and high blood pressure, I took this as a sign that I needed to finally do something to improve my quality of life and changed my diet and began regular exercise in a quest to minimalize my symptoms and prolong my life. The hardest part for me was being told by the "diabetic police" that I couldn't do this and couldn't eat that, all of which turned out to be a pile of BS after I enrolled in a diabetic education program. I can understand your feelings on this but diabetes is no longer the death sentence it once was so follow your doctor's advise and take care of yourself. You'll find that there is a lot of great support on this list.