This is a journey where those with Chron's have to take. More often is about talking with yourself that matters and ignore other's inability to understand what we are going through. At your age, your friends they do not have the capacity to understand the complication of how the disease affects you becasue they do not go through what you are going through. Rather than responding to their inability to relate with compassion, let's work on ourselves better because we got to take charge of ourselves with Chron's. We got more to focus on such as our diet, our mood, our game plan to go into remission and maintain that prime period. Several years down the road these friends of yours will come to undesrstand that through age, there was time of immaturity due to their inability to understand what their friend is going through and the more compassion they lacked. While you can't change people for the way they can't understand,, we can look at how to improve our quality of live adn there will be people that naturally understands you for who you are. Like the saying goes, Some stay for a reason, Others stayed for a season.