If someone has trouble understanding you because you live with a mental illness, that is not a stigma if they research what it means to live with it in good faith. Most people exercising stigma against the mentally ill know nothing about psychology and psychiatry. Furthermore, the stigma they exercise against you says a lot about their insecurity. Many so-called sane and successful people are terrified by anything that demands they think of someone else different from themselves. The fact that someone living with a mental illness or brain disorder may be different from those not so afflicted makes many afraid, not because of what the mental health consumer may do, but because that person threatens them by their difference. They prefer to exercise stigma and rejection than acknowledge that the life of a mental health consumer may be as worthy as their own. That is their problem.