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Parent of young adult needing advice please

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Bloden said:
The photo's somewhere on the forum - anyone got the link? Perhaps your daughter @Pixeylou isn't aware of famous people who aren't shy about their pumps. Might be a positive for her if she saw it?

(((hugs))) by the way, you have all my sympathy, you really do.
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I posted it here @Bloden but there are quite a few photos around. What a role model she is to children and young people with diabetes:

https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/board...-daughter-proudly-displays-her-omnipod.96079/

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No, I’m aware of it. One of her best friends at uni also has it so it isn’t that she doesn’t know anyone. Yes, she tries to hide it. She has had therapy for it but it hasn’t yet changed the way she feels about it. Her mental health isn’t just to do with her diabetes. It’s more layered than just one thing. She does feel feel a stigma to do with it. I know she should but I have the benefit of age and wisdom and perhaps am more comfortable in who I am than she currently is. Her other issue is that she often starts eating and within two mouthfuls is full and that is her reason for waiting until she is finished so she knows what she has had.
 
Ah, that must be difficult. Diabetes certainly doesn’t help when you’ve already got other things going on. Teen/young adulthood can be hard. I struggled too. It’s all about getting to know yourself, and diabetes is a very unwelcome intrusion when you’re trying to do that.
 
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