After spending years battling Type 1 diabetes, Anwar Boutahar has learned a thing or two about managing negative feelings. You've got to let them out, the teen activist from Toronto explains to CBC Kids News. The trick is finding somebody who will listen. "I'm fighting for the right to have somebody listen to me and to have somebody to talk to." Anwar tells CBC Kids News that living with diabetes has taken a toll on his mental health, and it sometimes felt like adults weren't taking his feelings seriously, he says. He set out to change that by talking publicly about the impact a physical disease can have on a child's mental health.

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