She had support that facilitated her success and changed her life, which illustrates how her life was a story of social justice. Sonia Sotomayor grew up in The South Bronx. She faced a huge challenge when she was a young girl. She was Diagnosed with type one diabetes at such a young age. “Type one diabetes, once known as juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, is a chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin, a hormone needed to allow sugar (glucose) to enter cells to produce energy. The far more common type 2 diabetes occurs when the body becomes resistant to insulin or doesn't make enough insulin.” ( Mayo Clinic, 2014 ) Which means that the pancreas produces no insulin and therefore making it harder for people to live. Having diabetes at such a young age can be so difficult. According to Psychological challenges for children living with diabetes by Abolina. She states that, “Living with diabetes can feel overwhelming for parents and children because constant vigilance is required for proper care. Childhood diabetes means that no food is supposed to be consumed without understanding: the …show more content…
She grew up in The Bronx. She moved to the projects in The Bronx for better living conditions. “Around the same time that junior was born, we moved to a newly constructed public housing project in Soundview, just a ten-minute drive from our old neighborhood. The Bronxdale houses sprawled over three large city blocks: twenty-eight buildings, each seven stories tall with eight apartments to a floor. My mother saw the projects as a safer, cleaner, brighter alternative to the decaying tenement what we had lived… in the projects we were isolated.” (Sonia Sotomayor, p. 1. 2013) Sonia grew up in the projects and her mother felt that it would be safer than where she used to live. The projects a government-subsidized housing development with relatively low rents.(Google, 2014) The projects are for people who are poor and for people who cannot afford rent.”Junior and I were absolutely forbidden to take the stairs, where my mother had once been mugge and where addicts regularly shot up, littering the scene with needles and other paraphernalia.” (Sonia Sotomayor,p. 24. 2013). This was the negative aspect of living in the projects. She faced this in the poor place. Having type one diabetes and living in poverty were two significant life challenges that Sonia Sotomayor encountered when growing