I feel that the world does not know Diabetes. It might know what it is, people that have it don't have insulin through their body, that if their blood sugars are too low they have a hypo. But they don't know how it feels.

Nearly everyday there are articles in newspaper stating the latest research in Diabetic research. They say it as if it's nothing. As if there isn't 1000's of people around the world suffering with it everyday. Like people don't die of it nearly everyday.

Imagine a little child being told they have Diabetes, being told they have to have injections everyday, being told they're not allowed to have chocolate or sweets. But the worst part, is not understanding why. Why they have to do all these things. Why they're different from everybody else. And why it's them who have it not Bob next door. What makes them so special? Of all the 6 billion people in the world, why is it them specifically? Have they done something wrong? Has someone done it to them to punish them?

The worst thing is when their friends or family don't understand. They offer you food you can't have. It's really hard when you're at a friend's house or sleepover and you have to go and do your injection and they don't know and ask questions. They won't be able to enjoy themselves because they're worried that they've eaten too much and their bloods are high or that they'll forget to take their insulin. Or, worst of all, they'll have a hypo in front of all their friends. What if they tell everyone at school? What if they don't talk to you again? It's the same at school, what if you have a hypo in class or at break time? What if they have a supply teacher and they don't know that you have Diabetes? Anything could happen to them. Imagine how scary that would be. The only thing you can do to stop it from happening is to take your bloods to school. They won't want their friends to see them take them and if they're going off all the time to the toilets or somewhere to take them, everyone will think that they are weird or strange.

It would be very hard if you have a sibling and they don't have Diabetes. They might make fun of them or deliberately eat food that they cannot have in front of them. After having all that trouble at school you can't even come home to peace. It'd be even harder if their parents don't really understand. If they have to deal with it in their own, they're not helped with their blood taking or injections. They have to watch out themselves for signs of low blood sugars.

I imagine it would be even harder if they are in out of hospital or in hospital for a long time when diagnosed. They would come back with a completely different view of life. They would have to catch up with school work, imagine if they were in the middle of taking important exams, how hard that would be. It could mean the end of their academic career, especially if they want an especially complicated job in the future. They'd have to deal with unsympathetic pupils and teachers.

Another factor is their appearance. With doctors who don't understand what they're going through and people who make fun it isn't easy. With all their friends getting boyfriends or girlfriends, people are put off them when you look fat and bloated. While friends are obsessing about how they look they can't do anything to help how they look themselves. Dieting isn't an option, as if they don't eat certain amounts they'll have low blood sugars. No matter what research says insulin definitely makes you put weight on and the only way to lose weight is not to take the amount of insulin needed, which could endanger their life. This is an unnecessary risk for something as minuscule as the way they look. Although it may seem like the most important thing in the world, living is much more important.

This person that I've been talking about for the entire time, I bet you're wondering who it is. I think that over the person's life it's what every person who has Diabetes feels over the course of their life. It might not happen all at once or in the exact way described, but they will feel it, even if no one knows.