This strange thing happened a few years ago in a low-ranked college. I was registering my classes and mentioned I had some health problems fucking up my life. She strangely asked something like "Is it a physical issue or one of the fake ones?" I had no idea what she was talking about and replied with, "What?" She asked something, "is it something physical we can see or something mental we cannot see?" I just told her about my surgery. But then she strangely replied with something like "Oh, I see. I was just asking because some people love to claim they have mental medical problems, but those are not real."
What the fuck? I did not reply with anything. In addition to being tired from the lack of sleep, it was just so random, strange, and awkward that there was some college advisor claiming mental medical problems are not real. I still have no idea if she was joking as she was sometimes silly, but it sounds fully serious jfc. I have no idea if I misunderstood the conversation.
Should I have replied and explained to her that mental medical problems are obviously real? Anything else? It seems so dumb that I would need to educate the advisor. I never reported the advisor because there was no recording proof…