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Being a young carer is a very hard job

Being a young carer is a very hard job but the good things about being a young carer are

• that you often get to come to a few young carers workshops
• and that I get a lot of money from my mum

• the bad things about being a young carer are that you hardly get any time to go out and get a social life and be able to socialise with your friends.
• there is also one more reason that being a young carer is very hard because someone else in the family might be diabetic and you wake up, and they are in a coma or having a hypo and you have to sort it out yourself or call an ambulance. Sometimes they might throw a fit that is another reason why I hate being a young carer because it scares me.

written by Charlotte.