"It Got Likes, But I Don't Think People Understood": A Qualitative Study of Adolescent Experiences Discussing Type 1 Diabetes on Social Media.

Adolescents with T1D flexibly leverage the affordances offered by social media to access emotional support, information, and identity affirmation resources while navigating stigma-based social consequences. Our findings highlight the value of developing tools to support adolescents with T1D in comfortably discussing and receiving appropriate support about T1D on social media.