Yes, my adrenal insufficiency originates in my pituitary also. And it really sucks when people don’t get it.

They aren’t saying it’s imaginary, they just treat it as if it doesn’t matter, as if it doesn’t affect my life in any way. That I’ve been near death because of it? Doesn’t matter. Death is, after all, a minor nuisance. People ask me “Why X?” (usually “why haven’t you still done X”) and when I answer “because of hypopituitarism”, they say “no, that’s not it”. Gee, thanks for telling me. It’s a good thing everyone in this world knows what happens in my body, except for me (me who has successfully diagnosed all the illnesses I have years before I’ve got an official confirmation).

Yes, and I’ve seen others latch onto those partial truths as evidence. It’s awful stuff.

And the half-truths they tell are far more damaging than the lies in some ways, because they look true on the surface, they rely on partial truths.

I remember when I was trying to research autism and I found all of those webpages where the bullies were posting their lies about you, and like… it is not hard at all for me to imagine people wanting to do that, but seeing it in action was horrible. No one should ever be put through that kind of crap.