One day he called our home phone asking where my aunt was so I gave him a few words about how controlling he’s being so he threw the your schizophrenic in my face. So I learned not to tell him anything from there on.
Then my aunt (his wife), I told her I was going for an autism assessment, she said to me she’s worked with autistic children and that I don’t have it at all. She was shocked to learn I came out with a diagnosis. That and ADHD. Her opinion was these kids are erratic.
Sometimes its hard to see it, it can be hidden a lot of the time, maybe if they could see through your eyes it would be different, My Mum also didn’t understand but it was ok, she just wanted me to be ok but she didn’t understand, my Dad had a better idea about it. Everyone’s family members and friends will have different ways of thinking about it & maybe treat people with Mi in different ways depending on what it is,
I’m basically saying that everyone is different and will have different reactions to different things in different ways, you probably would never get the same response from one person to the next & there is the stigma as well, the preconceptions/Misconceptions, people make, judging and what not, its not as bad now (or i just don’t care about it as much anymore) and that’s a good way to be.