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==But you don't look sick!== In both society and the disability / social security systems, people are considered "healthy until proven sick" (Stone, 1984).<ref name="Stone1984">{{Cite book | title = The disabled state|isbn=0-87722-359-9|url= | date = 1984|publisher=Temple University Press | last = Stone | first = Deborah A.|oclc=10912807|location=Philadelphia}}</ref><br> ===Passing for "normal" === People with invisible illnesses are usually able to choose whether to disclose or hide their illness or aspects of their illness, and may attempt to "pass for normal".<ref name="JoachimAcorn" /><ref name="Pilkington2020" /> ===Stigma and discrimination=== The lack of visibility of an invisible illness may avoid some types of [[stigma and discrimination]] but others, for example a lack of social support from family or friends, and difficulty accessing [[disability]] supports.<ref name="JoachimAcorn">{{Cite journal | last = Joachim | first = Gloria | last2 = Acorn | first2 = Sonia | date = 2000 | title = Stigma of visible and invisible chronic conditions | url = https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-2648.2000.01466.x|journal=Journal of Advanced Nursing|language=en|volume=32|issue=1 | pages = 243β248|doi=10.1046/j.1365-2648.2000.01466.x|issn=1365-2648}}</ref> Many invisible illnesses are chronic illness, meaning that they are long term health conditions and do not have a known cure.<ref name="Donoghue2000">{{Cite book | title = Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired: Living with Invisible Chronic Illness|isbn=978-0-393-34283-3|language=en | url =https://books.google.de/books?id=0wzftw0hQLgC&lpg=PA5&ots=2BCvanhe5J&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q=bleeds&f=true | date = 2000-09-17|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company| edition = | last = Donoghue | first = Paul J. | last2 = Siegel | first2 = Mary E.}}</ref>
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