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Saffron Otter

'I was so ashamed of diabetes that I injected myself under desk and became ill'

A man was left feeling so ashamed of his diabetes that he injected himself with insulin under the desk.

Daniel Newman, who went by 'sugar boy' at school, wants to break down the stigma attached to the condition - as 'no health condition should be a punchline in a joke'.

The 36-year-old, who lives in London, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes – an autoimmune condition which causes the level of glucose in the blood to become too high – when he was 10 after being rushed to A&E following an evening at the cinema.

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