<p>Ignorant people will always be judgmental. If you’d mentioned the mental illness she may or may not have been nicer, and I think it is probably good you didn’t mention it. I once had an internist berate me because I said I wouldn’t call her gastroenterologist in her office right that second to schedule my colonoscopy because I wanted to talk to my mom about it first, and she couldn’t comprehend why, and I told her my mom pays my medical bills (I was a 19 or 20 year old student at the time) and I have autism and have trouble scheduling medical procedures like this by myself, and she got mad and said, “You go to school, don’t you? If you go to school, why can’t you do this yourself?” I wished I hadn’t told her, her ignorance about autism just made me twice as irritated and made me feel embarrassed when I didn’t deserve to.</p>
<p>It was a complicated procedure, too. I was terrified to have it and would only consent if I could be completely asleep, and the only way to manage that was to schedule it at this ONE particular facility with ONE particular doctor under ONE particularly perfect set of circumstances, and every time I tried to call someone to set it up they would tell me “oh you dont have to worry about that, here we’ll schedule it with <em>this</em> doctor” which was the wrong one. I kept getting off the phone with no appointment because I was getting so confused, I needed help. Not to mention that my mom had to agree first because she had to pay the bill for me!</p>