I was 13 years old when i started with the symptoms of diabetes. I was losing weight, getting really tired and thirsty and my eyesight was becoming blurry. As my mums dads family have all got diabetes he was scared that one day one of us would get it and i did. My mum took me up to my Grandads and i did a blood test and it was 25.7. My mum and dad took me to hospital and then i was diagnosed with diabetes. I never took it in properly that i had it. After watching people have it on television and seeing what they had to do i always said i hope i never got it and i did. I had to use syringes for a while and it never bothered me about doing it and taking my blood to see what my sugar was. I was off school for a while until i was stable enough to go to school. I then had to keep going to a diabetic clinic to see how i was getting on and i was doing well, the only thing i dint like was not being able to eat chocolate apart from diabetic chocolate and sweets which i didn’t like. I used to see my friends at school having chocolate and sweets and drinking fizzy pop and i was there not being able to but to have to drink water and eat healthy food. After a while of having diabetes it was time to go back to the diabetic clinic and they put me a new diet were i could eat chocolate again and things that i used to like as long as i put in the right amount of insulin. It was carbohydrate counting. I felt better with this. After 2 years it finally sunk in that i will have this for the rest of my life and people at school started teasing me and calling me a druggy because i was using a pen to inject myself with. My friends never said anything they helped me through school and they knew what to do if anything happened to me. Most times now and then id sit and cry and i would self harm myself and think why me? Why did i get this? But no one knows. Iv had diabetes now nearly 5 years in September and im getting used to it but i still wish i never had it as i sometimes feel different than other people and i feel like i get treated differently by people to. I just think to myself that i have got it for the rest of my life and i cant change that so i just get on with life now even though i do have complications sometimes. Iv collapsed a few times and had to be taken in hospital because i was too high and because i was too low. Its a weird feeling having diabetes knowing that the insulin i have to take now keeps me alive and its horrible when i no I’m going low as i shake like mad and cant talk properly and feel like I’m going to sleep and when I’m too high im really thirsty and get headache and don’t want to move so it is a weird feeling that i never experienced before in my life.