Goodbye for now
"I am a type 1 diabetic. And this? Well, this is my attempt at making people understand what type 1 is, and what it’s like." It feels surreal to be writing this. I wrote those words on the 8th of May, 2013 in my first ever blog post. I was 17, in Year 12 at school and had just had my third diaversary. I was excited to try this blogging thing, but also incredibly nervous about sharing my personal stories with a big audience. My goal was to teach friends and family about my life with Type 1, in the hope to minimise the number of stupid comments I got. But then it occurred to me that people I didn't know might read it too. What if they didn't like me? What if they thought I was stupid? What if absolutely no one ever reads a single thing I write and this is a big embarrassing flop? None of those things happened, but so much more did. I met some amazing people along the way, got my foot in the advocacy door and accidentally became a mental health advocate in t...