| Ignorance!
Dear Reality Check, My name is Sophie, I am thirteen years old and I
have had Diabetes for about two and a half years. I found out about
you through a poster in the waiting room of the Adolescent Mental Health
place across the road from the Children’s Hospital. I am so glad
I am not the only one to have those urges! I got so annoyed with
the newspaper 'The Age' because they ran two articles about Diabetes (which
were about Type Two, of course), but they didn't differentiate between
the two. So I wrote a letter explaining the difference, how I manage
it, and how annoying it is when people tell you what to do when they don't
know anything about it, or they know about type two, or they tell you about
eating too much sugar when you were young etc., etc. After a very
long fight (my mum joining in) they printed it. The health editor
rang me up and said that she was very sorry, and is planning on running
an article about juvenile Diabetes (she hasn't done it yet, though!).
Love,
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