Many teachers will go out of their way to make sure students are compensated for negative characteristics such as allergies. However, as someone with type one diabetes, I can confidently say that I do not receive the same understanding and the consequences of not keeping up with my blood sugar should be better understood. 

Diabetes is a serious autoimmune disease which can go bad quickly. With high and low blood sugar levels, the risk of passing out or having other negative effects is very high. 

 In my experience, many teachers are uneducated about the disease and don’t understand the risk. Me personally, I’ve had multiple experiences where I had low blood sugar and would’ve benefitted from having a facility to help raise it quickly.

Many teachers are not even aware of which kids have diabetes, which increases the risk for negative things to happen. I think teachers should be involved more, maybe by making an explicit point to have a 1 on 1 with students who have diseases that affect their learning and wellbeing to discuss what they can do better to compensate for it. 

I believe the school has the money for it but refuses to use it to help people such as myself. I think they should make more of an effort to acknowledge the issue and allocate resources to help fix it. On the contrary, some teachers make it much too big of a deal and make the person feel out of place, which I’ve felt personally.  

Overall, I think some teachers understand enough, too much, or too little on the subject, and I hope other students in my situation would benefit greatly from a solid line of communication between staff and students. By doing this, many students, including me, would feel much more comfortable with our situation as well as avoid many unfortunate possibilities.