'People with diabetes are not weird'

Mason says trips run for children with diabetes are helping break down stigma around the condition

Children with type 1 diabetes are benefitting from days out organised by a charity.

The United Lincolnshire Hospitals Charity said the aim is to make children feel “less isolated”.

Claire Cutts, from the children’s diabetes team at the United Lincolnshire Hospital Trust, added the trips also help “break down stigma” around the condition.

Mason, 10, said he sometimes “feels weird” but added he "feels the same” when surrounded by others with the condition.

Mason was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was five

Mason had a message for others with diabetes.

He said: “If you think you are the odd one out, you are not. There are so many other people with it, and you are not weird."

Children monitor their blood sugar levels together when on trips

Ms Cutts added: “We want them to realise they are not alone, diabetes is normal and they are not unique.

“They can do anything any other child can do."

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