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3. I'm a Type 1 Diabetic. This is my blog so, my dear reader, you are about to get a PROPER diabetes education. Being diabetic basically means that your body has trouble using or producing insulin. Type one, or juvenile diabetes, happens when your immune system attacks the beta cells in your pancreas that are supposed to make insulin in your body. Insulin is a hormone in your body that helps your body process glucose. When your body can't process glucose, it enters your blood stream and makes you really sick. (I think that was a pretty good explanation, if I got anything wrong you can NICELY tell me and I will gladly fix it.) Because of this, I have to inject my self with insulin at mealtimes and one other time, I take two different kinds of insulin, Novalog (fast-acting for food consumption!) and Lantus (slow-acting for other stuff!) I feel like I don't really know how to talk to people about diabetes. I was diagnosed in March of my senior year of high school, I was really sick for months and didn't know why. They thought I had Type 2, which is a different kind of diabetes that some people think is slightly more manageable and in some cases can even be "cured."(I'm only using "'s because I don't know all the info about it, if it works for everyone and all of that.) But then I got some tests and the doctor gave me the news. It's a really upsetting and confusing diagnosis because there's not really anything you can do to prevent type 1, it just happens and you feel like a victim. There's a lot of information you have to learn quickly because diabetes  requires a lot of maitenince. It was very overwhelming. In a way I was lucky, I got to be diabetes free for 18 years, most people are diagnosed in childhood or sometimes even when they're infants. And they caught on pretty quickly, most people wake up in the hospital with really high blood glucose levels and get diagnosed that way. Anyway, I've only had it a little over a year and I just do not know how to talk about it or when to talk about it. I usually have to do some explaining when people see me sticking a needle in my body, which I've gotten pretty stealthy about but I get caught sometimes, or if someone sees me testing my sugar or something. I want to educate people about it but I think I just need some more time. I'm hoping to go on an insulin pump this summer, right now I carry insulin pens, but a pump will allow me a lot more freedom with eating and stuff, plus it might help me loose some weight because taking insulin can make it hard to loose weight. Also, I can still eat sugar, so shut it.