Is it too high of an expectation to ask your significant other or close friend/relative to do a quick search on what BPD is? I feel like I’ve mildly tried to explain that I have BPD, without being overbearing or making it a gloomy conversation. But when I do this I feel like I’m really not getting the point across, and that the person I’m talking to can now easily dismiss how severe it feels all the time for me because of how calmly/rationally, briefly I explained it. I feel this way because their actions in turn seem to not be very interested in what I’ve just revealed to them, as if I’m just saying “I’m a little sad/wired sometimes but it doesn’t require max effort every second of every day.” I know it’s hard to respond to those sorts of things, but dismissing the conversation with silence or change of subject isn’t helpful. When the people who I’m letting be close to me don’t seem to take my disorder seriously, it makes me feel even more invalidated and unworthy. I’m also worried that I’m having too high of expectations only because I have always researched this stuff about others if I learn that they have something I’m not super familiar with, and I want to know how they operate so I can be supportive of them. 


TL;DR: I need to know if it’s a reasonable expectation or not to ask someone close to me to educate themselves on BPD.