AITA for walking out of a babysitting gig after I found out that the kid was diabetic?
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Date: 2022-12-15

AITA for walking out of a babysitting gig after I found out that the kid was diabetic?

I (18F) babysit for several families in my neighborhood. One of the families that I babysit for recommended me to this woman who is new to the neighborhood. She contacted me on Wednesday asking if I could babysit her two kids on Friday evening through Saturday afternoon. Apparently it was her friends birthday and they were spending a night in the mountains to celebrate. She asked me to show up a little bit early so that she could go over things with me. Nothing abnormal, especially since I’ve never met them before. I show up and she starts going over the usual stuff, and then she starts talking about insulin and blood sugars. Apparently, one of the kids (5yo) has type one diabetes, and she didn’t think that it would be important to let me know beforehand. I have ZERO experience caring for diabetic children. I told her that I wasn’t comfortable, and she just said “oh don’t worry it’s easy” and then tried to show me how to give an insulin injection. I also told her that I am squeamish around needles, and she kind of laughed it off and continued trying to teach me. I finally had to cut her off and basically told her that unfortunately I wasn’t comfortable caring for her diabetic child on such short notice, especially since she will be hours away (and probably drunk lets be honest). She started freaking out and begging me to stay, as she didn’t want to miss her trip. It seemed like she was about to cry as I was leaving, which made me feel bad. I texted her when I got home and basically said that in the future I would be willing to try, but I’d like to have some kind of “trial run” and we could build up to overnight once I actually knew what I was doing. She read my text but didn’t respond.

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