During recording of this episode Rae is 35 years young and lives with Graves' disease, Type One Diabetes and Psoriasis, all of which are autoimmune diseases.

Rae was diagnosed with T1D at the age of 22 and this year her diabetes becomes a teenager. Rae was determined

during her diagnosis to keep herself at her best! She was originally misdiagnosed as type 2 and given metformin only and they realized that wasn't helping.

Rae has a great family history of T1D. Before she turned 10, she would help her grandmom with injections. This was 25 years ago with syringes. This was a part of Rae's coming of age story.

After having her grandmom deal with complications related to diabetes Rae told herself that she would get ahead of this diagnosis.

Even though many of Rae's family has lived with diabetes, she still receives misconsumptions from people about her diabetes. She still gets questions about what she eats etc.

Rae is a great success story! She knew where she wanted to be in life. Months after diagnosis her doctor told her she was going into remission because she was needing little to no insulin and she went with what her doctor said and then she went ahead with eating whatever until she started feeling the same signs as when she was diagnosed. More than likely she was in a honeymoon stage.

Rae has strayed away from some of the things that she did previously, but diabetes has not limited her. For Rae, she says that she is forever on a learning journey with diabetes, and she speaks extensively on how many things in healthcare are bypassed when you are a person of color.

You can find Rae on Instagram at raeashonni_t1d