Struggling with Health Issues at a Young Age

@aldrwytch I have stopped trying to get diagnosis and started only addressing the symptoms I'm having. It's been incredibly effective, especially when paired with a change of personal language. When I tell someone 'I experience this symptom x amount of time', they are more likely to understand and accept it as fact than when I tell someone 'I think I have Y diagnosis'. I know what my body is doing and experiencing with me, I know how my body is feeling, I do months and years of research, I actively look for confirmation bias and look into differential potential diagnoses to ensure that I'm not jumping to conclusions, and I asked the people around me to describe certain behaviors or symptoms that I exhibit. This has been incredibly effective at making the people around me, medical professionals included, listen to me and give me the tests that I need or if they can't give me the resources to get the tests that I need. The medical system especially in America, I don't know if you're there but that's where I am at, is highly unlikely to actually take people who are chronically ill seriously. This is even more especially true if those people are assigned female at birth, if they are visibly queer, if they are people of color, if they are plus sized, if they wear glasses, and if they dress down or dress in a way that is less than business casual or suburban middle class. It also becomes harder to get quality treatment if you are low income, if the only thing you come with is a statement of pain, if you ask for benzodiazepines or opiates or most pain relievers, if you present with any sort of menstrual or womb or breast based issues, if you smoke drink self harm or do drugs, if you have certain benzo and pain relief rxs from another or previous dr even if they're totally legit and needed. You are worth being listened to, you should not have to live in pain, and you are worth being treated like a human being. If your radical acceptance plan doesn't include your boundaries being respected, your issues being taken seriously, and your symptoms being listened to, then I would highly recommend formulating a new acceptance plan because the bar is on the ground at that level.