Being temperamental or busy a lot at work is one thing. If they know your health is failing you get a brief period of sympathy, then they start shoving you out the door, for your “health”.
Safety to hide the weakness and be “difficult”
And I don't think many people would advocate _always_ being maximally vulnerable in all contexts come on.
Use your judgement but mine is that most people around me are too risk-averse in this.
I have the same problem of connecting with people because of not showing weakness or complaining.
That's not weakness. That's compromising with your nature that you cannot override.
I tried to be a productive robot with a predictable throughput. Many times. Never worked and will never work.
At one point you should accept some of your undeniable limitations.
Challenging all others is what it means to try and self-develop further.
> I have the same problem of connecting with people because of not showing weakness or complaining.
We the people are deep down very competitive and envious creatures. If you complain too much, you are weak. If you never complain, you are too strong and are disliked because you don't conform to the society's averages.
People in a social setting can only be pleased by you pretending to blend in with them. Harsh (and likely easy to dislike for the HN crowd) but it was demonstrated by the anecdotal evidence of many separate people whom I've known, myself included.
I'm also reminded of something my mother told me once, "I think people have a hard time approaching me because it seems like I never have any problems." This is also one of my weaknesses: being so good at concealing one's weakness that it makes it harder to connect with people. The kicker is there isn't much feedback given to you about this other than a low-level, pervasive loneliness.