The problem I run into with being taken too seriously come from my mother. I might act up a little (putting my finger in a steak sauce bottle at a restaurant) or be talking really fast on the phone, and she immediately thinks I'm "out of control again" and freak out or cut the convo off and hang up the phone.

Another example: Soon after my hospitalization, my parents had come to visit me at school and my dad brought up my rifle so I could hunt groundhogs. Mom and I went up to my room to do some paperwork and as we were talking I unpacked some things including the gun. As I stood by her inspecting the rifle and making sure it was unloading, she freaked out asking why I had it. I told her dad brought it up for me and I was just putting it away and she started sobbing uncontrollably.

When I asked her what was wrong she explained that she had though I was going to shoot and kill her with it and that she, "Knows she doesn't want to die now."

Hurts a little to know that your own mother thinks you're a psychopath.