I don’t know if you can relate or not cause I don’t know how your relationship is with your parents but I’ll try to explain. My mom has been very supportive of me ever since my schizophrenia started, which was around age 14 or 15 and we’ve been to multiple doctors, a bunch of medications, etc. But recently my mom has been questioning me a lot about my symptoms. She told me that sometimes she believes I am faking my hallucinations and delusions because in her words “it’s seems too “unreal” that you hear voices telling you things and seeing things.” I told her whether she believes me or not that she would never understand what goes through the mind of someone with disorganized schizophrenia because my thoughts are so mushed together and so random that I can barely talk without stuttering or talking very slowly. Basically what I’m asking you is do you have any tips on what to tell my mom to help her understand the way my mind works and what it’s like to be schizophrenic? Because I find it very difficult to describe how my mind works with the schizophrenia to someone who doesn’t have it. So if you have any tips I’d greatly appreciate it. 
my aunt doesn’t believe that I have schizophrenia because she thinks it’s shameful for family to have it. I don’t try to explain. I just keep my distance from her.
my mom knows, for a fact, that I have schizophrenia.
Maybe offer some reading materials…my mom mostly get its…my dad on the other hand is a complete ass about it…and thinks sz is just some bs…there’s no hope for him…so I have just come to terms with the fact he is a an ignorant ass…so now I don’t ask anything of him or expect anything of him…I hope your case goes diff…
Funny but I kind of have the opposite. I sometimes doubt my own symptoms but my mum reassures me I don’t put everything on. She has more faith in my diagnosis than me.
My mom was convinced I was faking it to get attention. My brother also has schizophrenia, and he never got help for it, so she thought I should be able to just suck it up and deal with it. She continued believing this right up until the point where the meds actually made me better, and my brother kept getting worse.
It is a challenge, because people will believe what they want to believe. Schizophrenia is a scary diagnosis for a parent to hear, so sometimes they try to live in denial. Maybe if you gave her some educational materials, she would start to understand better. This book is very popular among family members over on the family forum.
My mom spent months trying to convince me that I had Schizophrenia. When I finally went and got a psych eval (the kind where you talk to a psychologist for 4 hours and t hen take a bunch of written tests) they told me I have Schizoaffective Disorder. So she was close.