Almost completely irrelevant but perhaps some consolation is when you have a really well known disease/disorder you can have opposite problem. Problems like Depression and OCD suffer from it where people assume they know all about the problem, you see it frequently with depression with the whole "just be happy" things, and with OCD people have such a distorted view of what it is they expect you to behave in certain ways or will not believe you when you say you have it because you don't fit their criteria.
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Almost completely irrelevant but perhaps some consolation is when you have a really well known disease/disorder you can have opposite problem. Problems like Depression and OCD suffer from it where people assume they know all about the problem, you see it frequently with depression with the whole "just be happy" things, and with OCD people have such a distorted view of what it is they expect you to behave in certain ways or will not believe you when you say you have it because you don't fit their criteria.
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