I KNOW!!! My character is nearly entirely based off myself as well, but she has my personality(Oh, look. My profile pic says I'm an EDS survivor. Nobody knows what it is, and either way, no one cares because it isn't cancer! :D) I've been there. I can't even tell you all of my medical issues, because there are so many, most of which people don't have any clue about what they are(save for the Depression(in my case, MDD), and the Anxiety Disorders(Yayyyy panic attacks). It kills me to no end how cruel people can be. "Oh, you don't have cancer, and there's nothing visibly wrong with you, so you're perfectly fine!" Bull.