Do you feel like this?

[Weezay]

Do you ever feel like sometimes your so called "friends" don't except you cause you have diabetes. I'm just curious. Some of my classmates in my high school are scared to be around me cause I have diabetes. They are scared there going to catch. They are so immature. Does anyone else have this issue?

[sarah[:]

YES! people are so judgemental. i don't think it's because they think they'll catch it or anything, but just because they probably think it's not 'cool' or whatever. remember, if they're really your friend, they'll accept you even if your pancreas doesn't work. [;

[Mody_Jess_Pony]

I on the other hand have not had much of a true experiance like this yet. My school is very small and in till this point have not had a problem. However my friends do not understand that if I am a monster/cranky at some point that it may be because of the D...They don't understand the emotional content or the technical content often I just feel fusterated with them not excluded

[kierbabi09]

sometimes because my best friend will make remarks like "oh you can't eat that you'll slip into a diabetic coma" uh what? like i don't know what i can and cannnot eat? hello i'm not a moron and i've been doing this long enough....sometimes comments like that just make me really mad

[happy:)]

one time this guy on my bus started making fun of my little sister for having diabetes.:mad:

I WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOO MAD!!!!:mad:
to be honest i forgot what i replied cuz i was sooooooooooo freakin' mad :mad: @ him. but i do know i wanted to rip his head off and feed him to a great white shark!!!!
too bad i dont live near an ocean;)

[Blairbear]

I don't have d but my brother does and I don't really see it but me and my mom do get mad when the cousin in the family or adults tell us he cant have that and we try to explain they just don't really understand :rolleyes:

[LantusFiend]

Not often, but some people freak over needles.

[diamondback688]

I've never really noticed. All of the people I hang out with don't care.

[LadyBug]

it was worse when i was younger. my close friends all accept it, some of them i knew before diabetes, too. they all deal with it in different ways, thought. one has pretty much learned with me, which helped at first. another one just ignores it. he hasn't asked about it and we don't talk about it. it sounds awful, but it's great. it's like i don't have it around him. but after being around each other for two years, he's figured some things out for himself. like one time he offered me some gum during church and i was looking at the package trying to find the flavor. he flipped it over to the carb count, which i thought was really sweet(don't tell him;)!). my other friends are some where in between. they're all cool about it Thu, it's never been a problem with my 'real' friends. but some little kids are nasty(10-11 year olds):mad:. one little boy at a work shop said he wanted diabetes because i got my snack 15 minutes before everybody else. boy, did i let into him.....................:D

[malyssa]

Do you ever feel like sometimes your so called "friends" don't except you cause you have diabetes. I'm just curious. Some of my classmates in my high school are scared to be around me cause I have diabetes. They are scared there going to catch. They are so immature. Does anyone else have this issue?

I've lost quite a few friends because of diabetes...right after I was diagnosed, a lot of them kinda just left me. :( It was a really hard time for me. :( But I made it through, and I have my best friend in the whole wide world Lizz!! She also has typ1, but we get eachother so well!!! I don't know what I'd do without her! :)

[BobbyJackElmo]

Yupp and I hate how the adults try to sound smarter by telling you what you can and cant have when you know. Well, I'm used to it.

[Daxdog]

Yupp and I hate how the adults try to sound smarter by telling you what you can and cant have when you know. Well, I'm used to it.
Or when kids/teens do. :rolleyes:

[BobbyJackElmo]

Yeah it's pointless for them to say anything because they arent the ones that have to go through it every day. I met this one lady at my school that has Diabetes and tried telling me I couldnt eat something, ter I bolused for it. Lets just say I rarely listen to adults. :D

[dana.amp]

My 5th and 6th math teacher lost her husband due to diabetes. and for 2 yrs she thought she new everything about my diabetes. she made me check my bloodsugar every 2 hrs at school and she managed my shots. she was a patient of my mothers. and my mother told her to keep track of me at school. i hated it and i really disliked that teacher and still do now ;(:mad: