So, you feel like you're the only one with diabetes?

It’s pretty easy to feel like the only person with diabetes during your day-to-day life. At my work, there are a couple people with Type 2 diabetes but no one close to my age with Type 1.

And I talk about my diabetes with my friends from time to time, but usually they are asking me questions and trying to learn about it (which is really great!). I do have one friend I work with (he’s also my trainer) who knows a TON about diabetes and is usually teaching me instead of the other way around, which is cool because I’m the one learning, and I never have to explain to him why diabetes is challenging. He already gets it.

Still, nothing is quite the same as talking with someone who has it and just really knows what it’s like.

That’s why we all need to make sure we find our own community of people with diabetes. When I was in high school, I went to a group for teenagers with chronic illnesses of all kinds, some had diabetes, some had cancer, Crohn’s disease, etc. and we basically got together for dinner and talked about life with a chronic illness as a teenager.

Today, my community is all of you. I don’t know what kind of support system you’ve been able to find in your friends and your family and your hospital, but just because we’re all spread around the country and have never met each other in person doesn’t mean we aren’t right there for you.

When you need a reminder of how many other people know exactly how you feel, check out some of these posts, write a post of your own and just reach out. Diabetes is NOT easy. And it’s 100 percent understandable if you need help.

Roxy's Post: I'm So Ashamed

Roxy's Post: I own my body! Diabetes does not!

Roxy's Post: I'm not the only diabetic Alien after all!

Shelby's Post: Diabetes Is Killing Me Already

Jessica's Post: Back again

Jessica's Post: Taking care of myself

Mandy's Post: Love and Diabetes

Skyler's Post: Diabetes and Discrimination

Skyler's Post: I'm in over my head!

Allix's Post:  Grrrrr. Diabetes! (Diabulimia)

Ellie's Post: I need some help

Ellie's Post: Hoorah! I did it!

Okay, after reading a few of these, there's no way you can feel alone! We're all right here, so just holler, write, let us know what's going on with you, with your diabetes, your life, anything.