I guess I've been misinformed all my life. My great grandmother was diabetic, so it really wasn't a great shock when my father was diagnosed. After all, "it always skips a generation". As far as I know, there was no diabetes in my mother's family, so it came as a little more of a surprise when she was diagnosed. Still, her parents hadn't had it, so she wasn't "safe". Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather when I was diagnosed. I guess it just blew that theory out of the water. I don't even remember where I first heard that it skipped a generation, but somehow I'd always believed it. Has anyone else always thought that way or am I just gullible?