What: I have lyme disease...questions?

I am thirteen now. When I was very little, probably about 3 or 4, I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease. My mother has it as well. She doesn’t have any idea where she got it, but she started showing symptoms a few days after I was born. I got it from her.

I am in middle school now, and have had to be homebound schooled (where a teacher from the school ISD comes to your house twice a week and teaches you, because you are too sick to come to school) 4 times (second grade, fourth grade, sixth grade, seventh grade) and I just decided to be homeschooled. I am very shy, but I have a lot of friends. All of them know I have Lyme, but don’t really understand it. I feel really alone and not normal because of it. I can’t meet guys or meet new friends because I am now homeschooled. I don’t get out a lot, because I have a lot of Lyme ‘flare ups’ (very bad fatigue, fever/chills, stomach aches, headaches). I am just really tired of feeling so left out, and not-normal, and weird because of it and all of its effects. I really want nothing more than to just be like everyone else, ‘normal’, to be able to go to school every day (I missed 32 days of school in 2 and a half months). So I am wondering: Does anyone out there have Lyme? Do you feel like I do? How do you deal with it? Oh, also, I am on regular medication for Lyme and other co-infections. Me and my mom have chronic-persistent Lyme, which means it won’t just go away with medicine. Please help. Thank you very much in advance.