Yeah, having a chronic illness that could possibly kill me is pretty annoying, but it's the things that come along with having a dead organ that are hella annoying.

Diabetes is VERY annoying. Not only is it basically a joke to every person that doesn't understand the disease, but there are so many things that diabetics have to deal with besides high blood sugar and thousands of needles.

There's only a small percentage of type 1s out there (shout out to you guys), and you all will truly understand the struggles of being a type 1 diabetic, besides having to deal with insulin and blood sugar and the everlasting anxiety of dying from a terrible chronic disease.

1. The responses that people have when you tell them you have type 1 diabetes

These responses vary from, "Is that the kind that you're born with?" or "Is that the good kind?" or my personal favorite "Oh yeah, my grandma has diabetes too!" I've even gotten an "Oh that's cool!" Like really???? Yeah, they are all hella annoying and pretty misinformed. Get ya facts straight before you open your mouth!

2. Getting low blood sugar at literally the most inconvenient times

The most inconvenient time for me is when I'm sleeping, which is usually when it most often happens. I just want to sleep but like I also don't want to die. Sometimes, in the moment, the decision to get up and eat some carbs or just go back to sleep is truly a difficult one. Also, another very inconvenient time that I often get low blood sugar is during sex. Dying is so sexy, am I right?

3. Diabetes jokes

For some reason, diabetes is funny to people. I've never known why. These jokes range from, "If Joe has 10 chocolate bars and he eats 9, what does he have left? Diabetes!," or "I feel like if I eat another slice of cake I'm gonna catch 'the diabetes,'" and my favorite one I've ever heard, "Don't drink the tap water or you will get diabetes." Like, there are so many better jokes out there that don't involve minimalizing a chronic disease! My favorite diabetic friendly diabetes joke is, "Life is like a box of chocolates, it sucks if you have diabetes." (I give you permission to use this instead of other terrible diabetes jokes!)

4. Having to find a way to nonchalantly carry around your diabetic supplies with you throughout the day

Sometimes I forget how nice life was before I had diabetes when I didn't have to carry a big ass purse with me wherever I go. And now with security becoming a lot stricter at sporting events, concerts, etc (because people can't seem to stop attacking other people), it makes it even harder to carry around all my shit! I literally have to have my insulin, low blood sugar snacks, and my glucose meter with me at all times. Damn, it's annoying hauling around all that shit.

5. The fact that research for a cure for type 1 diabetes is so minimal

I don't know about the rest of you guys, but I really don't plan on having this disease for the rest of my life. So the pharmaceutical companies need to calm their asses down, the government needs to provide funding for research, and people need to become more aware of this disease. It's killing people every day and I'm really annoyed that I have to live my life wondering when it will be my turn for this stupid disease to kill me off.