I am the only one in my school with diabetes and sometimes it really gets hard. My friend keep on forgetting and constantly offer me sweets, and I don't blame them but I now live in a new place and my friends now aren't quite use to the hole idea of me being a diabetic... I feel alone sometimes and I feel stupid about that, is that normal because I have no diabetic friends, no one to talk to...
That comment, "You're Not Alone," needs to be believed, felt, and then known with appreciation. When a person cannot understand something - anything - there is a sense of appreciation. You will come to appreciate yourself, your uniqueness, your attributes and progress successfully. I know.
You see, my diabetic lifestyle began when I was an infant. I am now an "older woman," having had diabetes for over fifty years. Your present conundrum brings back memories! Your life's story is similar to mine. You see, you're already not alone!
I can also relate- going to a new school in the fall and meeting completely new people was really difficult at times. It reminded me the amount of education that the average person needs to understand how diabetes works.
Most people, I found, were really interested in what I have to do to take care of myself. Maybe your friends would benefit from a little diabetes lesson? My friends often come to me with nutrition questions once they found out how much I know.
You're not alone though, no matter what.
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Ohhh it can be very difficult trying to find friends who understand diabetes! I hear you! It's definitely a process at first -- because so many people don't really understand diabetes all that well. Gosh, I don't know much about any of the disease that I don't have, you know? If I met a friend with Crohn's disease, it would probably take me a little while to really understand how much it impacts her life!
Do you think your friends would be interested in gradually learning more about you? Are there things about them you don't all that much about yet, too?
My best friend doesn't have diabetes, but over the course of the past two years she has really learned so much about it that she really does support me. It was a learning process though, because this disease is complicated! So I had to be patient with her, and teach her whenever she was interested in learning more.
What do you think?
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