The internet is losing it over a high school production of 'Rent' changing AIDS to diabetes

A US writer's tweet is going viral after she shared a story about a high school production of 'Rent' - teachers didn't want to mention AIDS, so the characters had diabetes, instead.

Chelsea Fagan's tweet about a high-school drama production of Rent, but with diabetes instead of AIDS, has received over 30k retweets and hundreds of responses. Source: Carol Rosegg / Broadway Across America / Getty Images.

NYC-based writer Chelsea Fagan went viral on Twitter over the weekend, after tweeting about a particularly strange high school adaption of Jonathon Larson's iconic 1996 rock opera, Rent. 

She shared a story told to her by a bartender, who attended a school that reportedly chose the influential play as their drama production one year. 

However, rather than take the opportunity to sensitively handle the heavy topics that Rent presents, and educate the teenage cast and audience about drugs, needle sharing, safe sex, and much more - the school decided to remove all references to HIV / AIDS. Instead, they adapted the production, so the characters had diabetes instead.

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Plenty of Fagan's followers were confused, and some had questions and concerns they wanted to clear up:

Others replied to Fagan's tweet in exactly the manner you'd expect - with many, many jokes (525,600 jokes? Sorry.)

While others responded with 'high school theatre adaption' nightmare tales of their very own: