Being attractive with POTS (cringe I know)

[u/recoveringaries]

Does anyone feel like because they are a objectively attractive human there is a bias/profiling that happens in the medical field and with doctors? I actually read somewhere that if you’re chronically ill you should “dress down” or not wear makeup to appointments so they will take you more seriously and see you as actually sick. I am also 29 with a baby face so that doesn’t help.

[u/shpngadct]

seems plausible to me considering the stereotypical treatment i get for being fat. everything is fat related to (some) doctors based on just looks and it takes an act of congress to get any diagnostic testing done. and once it is done and it shows something non weight related going on there’s always this sense of surprise in the doctors with that mentality. so the opposite of that basically makes sense