1. When people ask why you're wearing a beeper

2. When you find test strips in weird places

3. When you need to pee all the time

4. When you have to fit your pump into formal attire

5. (although there are ways around that)

6. When people share their non-analogous conditions with you

7. When you can't go anywhere without a bag of supplies and snacks

8. When someone confuses Type 1 with Type 2

9. When your pump beeps in a house of worship

10. When you have more needle bruises than a heroin addict

11. When you have to eat before and after exercise

12. When your pump sets off the metal detector at the airport

13. And when you then get the full pat-down

14. Because you're also traveling with a full suitcase of drugs and needles

15. When your friends don't understand food
16. because they haven't counted carbs since age five

17. When you have to carry low snacks with you everywhere

18. And when your friends are jealous of them

19. When it looks like you're drunk

20. But when you really just have a low blood sugar

21. When people ask in hushed tones if you've seen Steel Magnolias

22. When people told you you were too young to need diet soda

23. When people ask you what you do with your pump during sex

24. And when you get tangled in your pump tubing during sex
