Not necessarily, the age ranges for "types" doesn't really exist any more. There are children being dx with T2 and I have a friend who was dx with T1 in her 40s it's about how your body is working.
My GP suggested T1.5 when I was dx due to my presentation but refused the blood test due to cost as the treatment was similar to T2 although I was put straight into orals rather than being given the option of diet alone as my diet was ok, I was not obese in fact I had lost a stone and a half in a year and my HbA1c was high at 12.2. He said at that point I would be on insulin sooner than later. If I hadn't gone LCHF for 5 years insulin would have been sooner. I could not sustain that eating plan through a period of high stress though and when I got back on track it was not enough even with 3 different orals.

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I thought they were joking wen they mentioned 1.5, apparently not lol 😃

That's exactly what I suspect, I do because when I got diagnosed they weren't too sure it was T2, but to answer your first question, I thought of myself as a failure and I tried to avoid insulin for a long time, and when I finally needed it tried to get off on my own until I ended up in the hospital with Dka, I feel much better now on insulin but my A1c is still 9.8, I have a nutritionist's appointment on the 23rd, she works with an endocrinologist so hopefully I'll change doc too cause mine doesn't really help me much.

Kim and Jenny; my nephew has been diagnosed with juvenile fibromyalgia and so I give him lots of telephone hugs.