# Teens, college, drinking and diabetes

**URL:** <https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/teens-college-drinking-and-diabetes/6387>\
**Category:** T1 Teen/College\
**Tags:** alcohol, drinking, college\
**Created:** [February 1, 2019, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/teens-college-drinking-and-diabetes/6387 "2019-02-01T18:49:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![ClaudnDaye](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/claudndaye/32/5_2.png) [@ClaudnDaye](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/ClaudnDaye)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/teens-college-drinking-and-diabetes/6387/3 "2019-02-01T18:52:38Z")

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> [@What is the RIGHT age (self-management)](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/what-is-the-right-age-self-management/6371/45):
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> This may be unorthodox…my parents practiced diabetes management while drinking with me while I was in high school. I’m happy to speak about that more but it made drinking less taboo and I was prepared going into those experiences when I was on my own, and this helped my parents fears, knowing that they’d prepared me to the best of their abilities.

I’m unorthodox and can see us doing this with Liam in a controlled environment as a way of “testing” things before him hitting reality.

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