[grace girl]

It's all so theoretical, but still, it's something I wonder about from time to time.
There is no family history of type 1 on either side of my family.
There are no other family members with auto-immune diseases.

That being said, I received a second MMR at age 17 as a requirement to enter the Florida public school system. They stated that the MMR I had received as a child was a bad batch and that all of us who were born in 1968 had to have the shot again. (Ironically, I've never met anyone else my age that had it again) I got very sick from the shot, and during the next 12 months I had bronchitis and various other illness's 14 times...I had never been sick in my life.

My doctor believes that something happened there that triggered this. 12 years passed before I was dx'ed, but he has asked me numerous, numerous health questions about my life during those twelve years and he believes that it was just a really slow onset.
Another doctor explained it to me like this: he said in my case, he felt certain that I got this from a virus. Whether it was directly from the MMR itself, or one of the many, many virus's I contracted during the following year is up for grabs.
I have read about how many children are dx'ed within 12 months of the MMR, and I think there's something there.