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Help for a young person to understand a parent with diabetes

JennyWren17

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Hi sorry if I'm doing this wrong not sure how it all works but my 17 year old son has recently moved home with me and he wants to understand but has a short attention span but I thought if anyone knew of something simple like info pics that highlight certain things in different areas might really help him, this sort of simple to the point thing would work for him and I get really confused when I try explaing things because of there being so many things about type 1 that are hard to put into words, I would REALLY appreciate any adviçe if anyone can please?

Sorry for the essay, Thanks for listening
 
Will he enter dialogue at all? Then he is in control of his attention span and can pause the conversation at any time, and if he is choosing the questions, he can pinpoint his concerns one by one. Takes pressure off both of you, keeps sessions to the length he can manage, and if he doesn't understand the answers, he is free to ask again. The adolescent mind is still rewiring, as you know but he probably doesn't, so his understanding skills are still processing.
 
What does your son want to understand? It seems to me that all another person who does not suffer from diabetes needs to know is that if you lose consciousness, you need to inject glucagon, but here are some pictures for he







and more fun


 
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