What's In the Future?

By Scott Coulter When I was in high school, I struggled with a feeling of being weak. In particular, I really felt that having diabetes made me biologically "unfit," unable to survive without assistance, sickly, and overly dependent on outside help. I looked around at my friends and thought, "if the world descends into anarchy tomorrow, they'll all be able to hold on and survive, at least a little while, and I won't." I know, I know — worrying about survivability in the apocalypse isn't exactly rational, and it's not like my friends were a bunch of survivalists — they probably wouldn't last more than a minute. But I was an adolescent; rationality didn't enter into it. It was a gut feeling of being "weaker" than my friends on a fundamental, biological level. And it bothered me. I outgrew that phase, as do most of us (but not all — I still know a few people who seemed to have hopped off the developmental train in high school and never did make it to adulthood). But sometimes I wonder if ALL of me outgrew that feeling, or if there might still be some part of me that holds onto it. And even if there is no part of me that struggles with that particular feeling of deficiency, I wonder how living with diabetes has affected my self-perception and perception of the world. Diabetes is a major thing to live with. It's a constant part of our lives, it requires large parts of our attention, and it never takes a rest. And at the same time, it can fall into a state of "rou...
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