Anyone dealing with an invisible illness
I can imagine this to be very aggravating since if you mention your illness too much, people think you want attention and if you mention your symptoms too little people think you never even had anything. The thing as with a few people I know, although I am not aware that they have had any diagnosis apart from the obvious mental ones and have no physical manifestation other than what they wish you to know of. This results in them spending huge amounts of money convincing everyone they have these and need those pills.
I think what I am trying to say is that on one side a person can argue that treating the invisible illnesses with a bit more caution is alienating them but can be helpful.
If you are not treated better by those who "supposedly" know you over time and they still seem to think you are faking it, then those people are just shit. It is all a balance and given evidence one should weigh this, the people I know personally, well that is a case of nod and smile since they are so full of shit that I feel they fuck it up for people who are truly suffering.
Yes, it would be nice if people acknowledged your illness but if they are going to be typically human then maybe they should just shut the F#$%up and move along.
People (doctors included) need to grow more empathy towards those who are sick or suffering from any type of illness, visible or not. Often doctors forget they are treating patients and act as if they deal with numbers not humans. People judge and label those who are sick or suffering because of their lack of understanding. Their ignorance turns them into insensitive persons. A lot of those who are truly suffering prefer to distance themselves from others in order to avoid getting hurt, judged and so on.