Re: New and Somewhat Alone

heyy! i know everyone is sooo supportive and stuff but I don't really know a lot of people with diabetes. I'm friends with one guy who has t1 too but we only talk when were testing at the same time in the nurse's office. Sometimes my friends forget I have t1 and they'll all buy like a triple chocolate ice cream bar and then when i remind them, they eat it and RUB IT IN MY FACE! It's not really that bad anymore because I try to avoid talking about it with  my non-diabetic friends. They always ask me so many questions and then when I'm answering one for the 9 billionth time, there's always some evil troll to come out from under their bridge and say, "Shut up! no one cares about your diabetes. We've heard it before, stop telling everyone like 4 billion times!" That would be one of those times when I would want to rip their face apart. But I don't. I just shut up. Like I said, avoid it.

I want to be active and do all this stuff but my schedule is so chaotic I can't even breathe any extra. I was just diagnosed and my family is still freaking out a little. They're way better than me though. Its hard sometimes. Especially those headaches I get when I'm high in the middle of class and I can't just up and go from like a math test or whatever! I don't like it but  hate the makeup work more! Diabetes is new and crazy and my new life. Sometimes i just don't know how to deal.

Hi Sophia,

I'm sorry no one replied to you sooner, but welcome. I hope you've been able to check out our groups and forums. Let me know if you have questions about fiding the right area to post your questions and meet people on here!

Sarah

I guess diabetes sucks for you but you seem really great.  I know it must be hard to deal with friends.  If they don't get it now they will.  Let them eat triple choc EVERYTHING.  You will be the healthiest of the bunch.  Highschool does not last forever ;-) trust me.  As for your family, sounds like they care about you alot.  Let them take care of you for just a little while, soon you will be in the big bad world of college and doing things on your own.  It sounds like you have got somethings to work out with your friends but could you be funny about it, like wear a t-shrirt that says "I get high on diabetes" or something funny like that?  When your friends ask you why?  you can't have that.  Don't say you can't have that, say "na I don't want any I know how to count carbs and you are eating like 600?  so be my guest.  I thiink sometimes humor is the best defense.

Glad you are here.

thanks guys!! that's really nice of both of you to say! Now that it's summer, for some reason i don't see my friends as often 0.o (don't know why that is). anyway, i don't even have to avoid it anymore i just work out and stay active and my BG stays low enough so that I can do almost whatever i want. My diabetes is still not that developed so i still have wiggle room when it comes to sneaking a snickers or something... but even so i still try not to. anyways anyway, i like the humor thing and i'll be sure to use that more often now. thanks again you guys =]

Heyy Girlie!

If you ever need to talk just message me..I have had diabetes for soooo long that its just normal to me..if you have any questions feel free to contact me...=]

* and next time someone tries to rub it in your face eating a triple chocolate ice cream bar..please remind them that at least your not looking silly trying to make someone else feel bad by shoving a..hmm..4billion calorie and and fatty dessert down their throat...because..you maybe be diabetic..but  nothing is that wrong that you would want to make an idiot of yourself like that..... *

and ps.keep on being strong....because your family will ajust better if you help them through it by remaining cool calm and collected through the tough times...i know it's hard..but everything will work out..i promise you =]

Hii Eric, I hang out with mostly my friends that don't have diabetes i don't even know anyone that has diabetes that i can talk to or get advice...LOL!!!!!!!

Hey Sofia! I am kinda new to all of this too, and even my mom is freaking out, and I am 27. I didn't have to go through high school with it, I am sure it is hard. I have no friends that are type 1 diabetics either, and it is tough. They try,and they are supportive, but there is no way that somebody who doesn't have to live it can ever really understand what its like to have type 1. That fact actually is probably the cause of most of the arguments I have with my boyfriend, I get so frustrated because he doesn't know what I feel like, and that is not his fault, and teenagers are not very compassionate by nature, but try to remember that they don't know what you feel like and they never can, so don't be too hard on them. As for the questions, that falls right in with the fact that they don't know what you are going through. I think the questions are a sign that they care. My friends are a whole lot older than yours, and I have to answer a lot of questions too, because the truth is that very little is known about type 1 diabetes, unless it is a part of your life. Keep your head up doll, you seem pretty grounded, and keep talking to people about it, maybe not everybody, but find some good friends, some that genuinely care about you and talk to them. I have a handful of friends that I talk to, and eventhough they cannot fully understand my daily struggles, they care and they listen and that is really helpful.