Type 1 Diabetes Hats

Type 1 diabetics and the parents of type 1 kids have a gallows-cheerful in-group vocabulary, and nearly every joke routes through one organ: the pancreas. It quit. It is dead, retired, useless, a subscription service. These hats keep that voice and aim every joke at the wearer's own pancreas, never at type 2. The badges are what people type into a search box: TYPE 1 DIABETIC and T1D, set plain. From there the lines come straight from the market. DON'T BE A QUITTER LIKE MY PANCREAS and DEAD PANCREAS SOCIETY are sold on shirts today, and a single storefront lists more than four thousand results for diabetes pancreas shirts. I'M NOT DRUNK I'M LOW takes the oldest misunderstanding in the community and turns it into a flag. DIABADASS arches across the crown as a one-word boast, I CARRY CANDY FOR MEDICAL REASONS explains the pocket, and the pump-and-CGM lines, PART ROBOT and the roller coaster operator, make the hardware part of the joke. November is American Diabetes Month, and these are a natural gift for a diagnosis anniversary, a camp counselor or a parent who has done the carb math at every meal. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. The quitter line and the not-drunk line each get a second colorway.