What do you do if your therapist doesn't believe you?

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I have had many, many doctors, therapists not believe a word that is coming out of my mouth simply because I knew medical terms. What they don't understand is that I have had problems well before reading medical books. Well for the autism I guess I read the DSM before birth! For the schizoaffective disorder I didn't really go on the Internet back then because it wasn't as cool as it is now. I don't know if I had just a modem or satellite. I know that was long ago. What??? I psychically knew it according to them???? This is exactly what I don't get. I obsessively studied my diagnoses AFTER I got diagnosed so doctors afterward thought I just was looking at the book and copying the symptoms. Basically accusing me of factitious disorder (By the way I am NOT a FAKER..they die because they lie). The only problem is that I have several conditions and besides knowing all the terms this is why they suspect it. Not just the autism. Ever since a kid I occasionally get conversion disorder as well. My autism now presents differently than the norm (and compared to when I was a child) and that is also why the idiots at the hospital didn't think I had it the first few times I went. My current psychologist who is an EXPERT says I am classic even though I socialize. I learned. And I got a dog that helped me get it less severe. After her I started socializing for the first time. As for the schizoaffective the other thing that makes it a weird presentation when I am having a psychotic break is that the severity varies during the day. Morning and afternoon (especially afternoon) is the worst and night is the best. I don't remember if that is what it was like when I was a child. Recently I looked at my medical records from my childhood and as early as 8 years young I started showing early, early signs of something that is going to happen. I started not knowing the difference between reality and fantasy. I also stared in space a lot. And some of the other behavior sounded like symptoms. Believe it or not my brother at the same time didn't know the difference and later on he heard voices! My mom doesn't remember it but its on his school records. Now I don't know if my brother was having PTSD symptoms from witnessing something that happened to me. But the doctors back then were suspecting either PTSD or very early childhood schizophrenia. It didn't turn into schizophrenia for my brother or PTSD. Now, I don't know if the doctors stopped my brothers schizophrenia from progressing and staying or it was just a short term thing. He had it when he was 10. Then when I was 12/13 is when it snapped for me. So, I have had mental illness problems most of my life and autism all my life. When people first meet me they don't notice the autism. But when I am having other problems they notice that right away.