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We have a very special guest with Madeline Corwin who is someone I met a long time ago.

She's a young girl, she's 24, she's a type one diabetic, and for the last couple of years she has worked on trying to make sure that no one ever dies from not being able to afford their insulin.

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Tell me how you got started in this world.

So I've had type one diabetes for nine years, almost 10, and I didn't have like a community of people.

I didn't even know one existed really. How old were you when you were diagnosed? I was 14. Okay, so you're 24 now. Yeah, I just turned 24 a few days ago. Okay.

Yeah, and I didn't know there was a community at all until last year the Instagram Explorer page for some reason, like it was starting to give me people with diabetes, maybe because like my Google searches and it was just like recommending me things.

And I found a girl that was like really pretty and she had an insulin pump and I started like following her and then eventually I ended up like making my own kind of diabetes Instagram count.

Right.

Two separate counts. And then like it was almost immediately that like I fell in with like the right people, I guess.

So like I fell in with like people that were really focused on insulin legislation and like mutual aid and stuff like that because it's like it's such a loud issue here. You would think that like all diabetics would care about it.

But yeah, that's not really the truth. It's it's a large community, but there are people who just like completely.

I don't know if they're ignored or like they don't know or like they're not affected by it, but that was basically how I got into it.

So explain to me what you saw when you started doing this diabetes activism.

I started on Instagram, which is nice, but you don't get like as big of reach as Twitter for whatever reason when it comes to this type of stuff.

And also there are I guess there are less people. It seems there are less people in need on Instagram because you know Twitter, you can just like post but on Instagram people aren't going to like post like.

I need insulin like that. It's just not the format of Instagram. So I moved to Twitter last September. And that was kind of when I met even more like people that were way deeper into doing this kind of stuff and befriend them and started getting in like direct message conversations with them.

And then I got in with like the hashtag certain people are using which I'm not sure if I should share, but like to get insulin or like to get help or just like I guess just like boosting people.

And then that's kind of when I was seeing the really big need on Twitter was when I was like opened up to that because it's kind of.