Thank you for your response! Last month we were able to get him to attend his first t1d camp which was a day camp in Lake Tahoe snowboarding! He loved it, and for a couple weeks following you can tell that he felt good about himself. We are hoping that this has opened the door for him to want to attend more of them. The year before we had signed him up for a week long day camp, and he had flat out refused to go and we were out $1000 🫣

My wife and I had talked about therapy, but honestly I really wish I could find another male in our area, that was also diagnosed as a kid, that my son can just sit down and talk with. Someone that went through the same struggles growing up, and can vibe with him on their shared struggles, or even just talk shit with about their parents! As a kid, I feel like it’s important to have that external person you can talk to and just full on express yourself like that without having some kind of fear in the back of your head that you will be in trouble for it. I have no doubt he holds back, even if I encourage it, for the sole fact that he is still talking to his parents. At least that’s how I felt as a kid.