I just want to be treated as if I were “normal”
Tired of being treated like some invalid or nut job by the people that surround me.
The Charity Organization alongside with my Case Manager treat me as if I were some low functioning basket case.
Wish I can forget about my doctors appointments and medications for a while.
Do they talk down to you? 
Being treated that way feels terrible.
There’s this secretary at my pdoc’s office who talks normally until I give her my name or social security number so she can look me up. Then she’s silent for a few seconds before she starts baby-talking me.
She’s an older woman and probably means well, but it feels like she thinks I’m some frail person who can’t be spoken to like an adult.
My inlaws treat me as if I’m an idiotic nutcase.
But at the same time I’m expected to do all kind of chores for them. So I don’t know what they want.
Just be yourself and take care of yourself the best you can.
Yeah all I’m asking for is some respect.
Not getting a lot of it lately.
Comes with having a severe mental illness.
You could just be snarky and tell them you’re not a kindergartener.
I’m sorry. People can be cruel in little ways like that, even if it’s unintentional. It still hurts.
My GP is scared of me, I think. Ever since I cut my arm bad enough to need several stitched a few years ago. Now he just rushes through my physicals while doing only the absolute minimum. He refers me to a specialist for everything else. I don’t go to him for anything anymore. I know I need a new GP, even if it is at the same office, but I keep forgetting to schedule an appointment with a new one!
Sorry guys, we deserve better!
I’ve been there man. Nothing worse than a condescending “support” system.
We all are don’t feel bad.
I understand completly. This i have dealt with alot. What you have to do is remove yourself from whats making you unhappy. Not saying this will be easy. You will have your ups and downs just like anyone.
I told my boss, and I was so happy that she still treats me like I’m the exact same assistant she had before. She hasn’t looked down on me or given me less complex tasks because she thinks I can’t handle them. But my family, I can feel them tensely watching me, waiting for something to happen again like last Spring semester where I ended up in the ward for a week. My nurse practitioner has always treated me like I’m incompetent and incapable of determining whether or not something is helping me out.
Luckily, I’m normal-passing to normies.
There was this social worker who treated me like someone who needs alot of care. She basically looked down on me. She loved caring and was persistant so I refused her help. The other day I was at the waiting room for doctor’s appointment, she greeted me saying “it’s been a while” so I said “AH” in the most blunt way possible; she left without a word. DO NOT TALK TO ME.
I slipped and told my preacher about seeing demons one day while I was in a hospital for blood clots. He didn’t flinch at all. He said a prayer with me, and he’s never treated me any differently or brought it up again. Some people react pretty well.
Both my psychiatrist and therapist treat me like a human being, thank goodness.
My Case Manager sometimes doesn’t treat me like an equal but overall she’s ok.
They probably mean good but you could show them that you are not low functioning, try to make some jokes etc, or do what @Ninjastar said.
That’s a tough one @Wave i don’t have any advice but ((((hugs to you
My worse experience is from physical doctors, I took my mum into my last neurology appointment and the minute I mentioned I had a history of psychosis he wouldn’t talk to me but my mum instead, it rubs me right up the wrong way, I am a being myself, treat me like one!
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