Understand completely. May not be the same thing. When I speak in AA meetings which I am probably way to open in what I discusss, but I feel it is vital to my sobriety. On occasion someone has come up to me and just told me to work the steps more or be more involved in the program. This is after I have talked about my dx Borderline!! Someone once pretty much just said had a alcoholic brain and dismissed my diagnosis.

People that do not get it and have a low capacity for empathy tear us down and do not even know it. I think this is a sickness in itself. Hopefully it can help if you can focus on the fact that a lot of people have problems we just show ours a lot more. To the extreme of no capacity for empathy a lot of sociopaths can blend in with society better then we, but I will take my dx over that one anyday. I can fully admit my diagnosis most sociopath will never admit anything is wrong with them no matter how many people tell them. Why I stopped having any contact with my mom....Guess I went off topic as usual...