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Originally Posted by Nejeda People have noticed, especially my parents and doctors, and teachers. I'm the mature young adult, all put together, perfect, get good grade, etc.
While I am mature for my age, I feel like they put too much pressure on me to be even more mature, and then when I act more mature, they can't handle it. And my peers all look to me as the "smart" one, the one they turn to when they don't know the answer. And yet not one of them takes an interest in my diabetes. I kind of wish just one of them would. It would make me feel like they actually care instead of just using me... |
I was so very much in the same situation as you!!!!
Let me give you an example. One day, when I was in HS, I was in choir, and had to leave class early to check bg, and take a shot because lunch was next. Well, I thought it was wierd that there was nobody at all in the halls except for our vice principal and a teacher. And, as I walked by them, I expected to be stopped so that they could check my passbook, and all that stuff. Well, as I walked by, the vice principal said, " Oh, she is one of the good ones. She's ok." Well, that had never happened to me before. I thought it was wierd to be called a good one....But, when I got to the nurse's office, she asked if I had heard what happened. I was clueless. Well, as it turns out, nobody was in the hallways because someone had let off a pop bottle bomb on the other end of the school. Now, don't you think that they should have stopped me??? For all they knew, it could have been me. It wasn't, actually the kid was found and arrested that same day. But, I had the reputation of being a good, mature kid who would do no wrong.
Sadly, there will be a lot of people that can't handle the fact that you have more important stuff to worry about than just what kind of pizza toppings you would like. But, there comes a point when you just have to do what will make you happy in the long run. I would have never met my husband if it weren't for me being willing to take the maturity I had that others were not so loving me using for myself.
I hope that your friends will take an interest in your diabetes. It is a hard thing when it is such a huge part of you and of who you are, and they don't seem to really care because it would be something else to have to learn about.
