My crazy, entitled teacher cuts the tube of my insulin pump right in the middle of class,

thinking that I'm listening to music through secret headphones that I was hiding,

and I've honestly never been more frightened when my mom rushed to the school with my

life-saving medicine and put my crazy teacher back in her place. Here's what happened.

So this happened when I was in middle school. You know, back in the days of wired headphones,

so about 2011 or something like that. While I'm currently 24 years old, I've had type 1 diabetes,

since I was about 4 years old, and I use a continuous glucose monitor and an insulin pump.

I had an IEP, so all my teachers were told about it, and that I wouldn't need my insulin pump

in class. While also telling them that it might make some noise, and I might have to pull it out

of my pocket and mess with it if I needed insulin, or I might need to drink a juice pouch or

something like that. And I was able to do so at my discretion. We had one teacher who was a

complete you know what, for no reason. She was notorious for making kids cry during presentations.

She even told one girl who wanted to be a doctor to find a cure for cancer, all because her

little sister had childhood cancer, that she would need to actually be smart in the first place

in order to do that. And she said this all while chuckling to herself. I mean, what kind of teacher

would do that? Let a kid dream. We were only 12 years old. As you can imagine, she was also at war

with technology. And on a side note, these days I use my phone to check my glucose and give myself

more insulin. I can't imagine being a kid today and dealing with a teacher like that when the lines

are blurred and your smartphone is actually a life-saving medical device. But anyway, if you're not

familiar with insulin pumps, the kind I use has a little tube that connects the pump, which has the

insulin to my body, which needs the insulin. This teacher also like to be weirdly obtuse about

things. Instead of being like other teachers, and simply saying something like, no cell phones

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