Sometimes we tend to stereotype, with no ill intentions; it just happens.
Assuming someone's healthy because they're thin, or assuming someone's rich because they dress nicely are easy thoughts that jump to mind. Even assuming someone's happy just because they have a smile on is a judgment call that we're sometimes too quick to make.
And Miss New Hampshire, Caroline Carter, is a woman who knows those misconceptions and judgments all too well.
Carter was diagnosed with diabetes at age 11 after a battle with mono. Now she's 18 and thriving, but she still has to deal with her condition every day.
But the most worrying thing about it all, according to her, is that so many people don't expect her to have diabetes.
She says in an interview, after walking the stage with her monitor visible on the back of her arm, that so many times, people come up to her and say that they'd never think she'd have diabetes. Or that she doesn't look like someone with diabetes.
When, clearly, the truth is that it doesn't matter what you look like. Anyone can have diabetes, and it can have nothing to do with being overweight or unhealthy.
Now, Carter hopes to educate more people on diabetes and prove that there is no "look" of diabetes, and it's more serious than you might think. That monitor on her arm? She may call it house arrest, but it saves her life.
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Thumbnail Credit: Caroline Carter's Facebook
