Everybody that has diabetes knows that sometimes it's just a pain, if you do a blood test in school everybody stares at you like you've got a really big spot on the end of your nose or something. But it's not that bad if you think about it .......

Hypo's are a bit annoying though, I have had them in some weird places like in the sistene chapel in Rome (the man at the ticket desk gave me his cherry bun as a snack! Yum!), the swimming pool (my mum and her friend Jacky had to pull me out of the pool!), even on an aeroplane! I actually used to like having hypo's, I enjoyed the feeling so I wouldn't tell anyone I was low until I was in the two's!

Insulin isn't the most enjoyable thing either but I still have to cope with it, when I was in hospital I used to bite my mum and cry because it was a new experience for me having to take it every day. The nurses couldn't stop me crying (though I stopped when I got used to it) but they did stop the biting; I was playing in the hospitals playroom with some dolls (I was five) when one of the nurses came into the room and asked if she could talk to me for a second,naturally I was terrified. The reason I was terrified was because normally when anyone said "can I talk to you for a second" it normally ment I had done something wrong. So I sat through her telling me that mummy didn't like being bitten. At the end of that conversation she showed me three squeezy toys and she said I could have any one of them I wanted! I was thrilled. Before choosing, I examined each toy very carefully: the first one was a penguin which made a rasping noise when you squeezed it, the next was a hippo which squeaked and the last was a pig. When you squeezed the pig it squirted out fake poo, which at that age I thought was brilliant! So I went with the pig.

I can still do anything! Diabetes dosn't stop me doing anything it just adds a few problems! For instance when I went to school camp last year, I could still do all the activities (including a water fight!) I just needed to have a snack before them!

Most of my friends are brilliant with my diabetes. For example, if I am hypo they'll take me to the teacher and one of them will always stay with me in the testing room (actually it's a toilet - yuck!). I am fed up with not being able to go to people's sleepovers, because their mums don't want to have other people's children with diabetes because they freak out and think something will happen in the night. But in February I had my first sleepover at a friend's party, because her mum didn't freak out because she is a nurse. We stayed up nearly all night and had a great time.

Some people aren't so great - one of the kids in a lesson said that anyone who carried drugs in their bag (like me) is dangerous and that diabetics were drug addicts.

Some of the teachers are good with my diabetes as well. One of them acts like a headless chicken and gets really stressed when I have a hypo though. But most of them are really calm and don't react badly.

Diabetes is good in one way because my family has become more healthy since I was diagnosed, and have eaten more fruit and vegetables and now we do more exercise - I have now got a trampoline and a swing, I go running with my mum and my dog Bluebell, and I have recently got my 800 metre swimming badge.

It is also good because when I got diabetes my mum gave me a cat called Daisy, from the RSPCA shelter, of which I am a member. When I feel upset about my diabetes I go and stroke Daisy and play with my dog Bluebell.

When I grow up I want to be an author, and my diabetes is not stopping me!!