Ok odd thing here...
Has anyone ever felt like they had to up play their disability in order to convince people they had it?
Like... I have clinical depression and extremely intrapersonal. Yet I can act like a happy outgoing person because that is an essential skill for me to have.
As well ONE time I read the notes that my doctor wrote about whether or not he thought I had depression actually list my level of kempt as good... Even though at that time I hadn't showered for two weeks (maybe more) and only did so because I was going out to the doctor... and otherwise was avoiding it.
It is this weird play everytime I go to the doctor... because I want to be honest... But I have a very ingrained way of speaking to strangers that is "Be pleasant, upbeat, and intelligent" that only like two people have ever felt was masking for inner turmoil... and those people had depression as well. So in my head I am like "Ok I don't know how to act, I want to be honest but I can't give no signs" (because... well... You don't try to give depressed vibes to people. You learn that in what? Elementary?)
And yet it isn't like I know that I am being completely irrational... I've been to people and doctors who flat out turned me away because I didn't have any exaggerated symptoms and only after complaining about them enough did they finally listen (Asthma). Heck forget that parenthesis, I had someone turn me away for getting myself checked for Asthma BECAUSE I didn't pass out.