Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder of glucose metabolism which affects some estimated four million Americans today. As a cause of death it is predicted that it will rate second only to heart disease by 1980. Juvenile diabetes, which afflicts approximately ten percent of this number, is defined as a disease whose onset usually occurs before fifteen years of age. This was a study of the attitudes of the adolescent diabetic. The following null hypotheses were investigated: I. There will be no difference in the marriage plans of non?diabetic adolescents and diabetic adolescents. II. There will be no difference in the occupational plans of non?diabetic adolescents and diabetic adolescents. III. There will be no difference in the educational plans of non?diabetic adolescents and diabetic adolescents.