recent diagnose, depression and misunderstood by parents

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Hey everyone,

How to deal with parents who to don't understand and apparently have no intention to look up anything about asperger's or how to handle someone with asperger's ? I feel so angry because all my life I felt like a bad person because of my anger but now I finally know that it was not my fault: I do my best everyday, all day long. I have had three clinical depressions and I am only 22 years old and recently got diagnosed with asperger's ( explains a lot ) and still my parents do not feel the need to start treating me differently or even reading up on asperpger's.
How do you deal with misunderstanding from your surroundings ?

I was diagnosed by a license clinical psychologist whose specialty is Asperger's and autism.

My immediate family don't believe it. Even other medical professionals don't believe it because I don't look like the stereotypical Rain Man character.

So how do I deal with that? I simply don't talk about it unless I'm compelled to bring it up, like to a psychologist or psychiatrist.

In that sense I'm an invisible aspie. If my symptoms were more pronounced that would've been better.

I am sometimes hurt by people's inability to accept me. Now I just keep those people at arm's length and stick with people who do understand me or at least make the attempt to understand. I am not angry. I just know that I can expect support from some people and not others. I accept what I can get. I guess what I am saying is that it is natural to feel hurt but that the hurt goes away after awhile--especially if you find someone else to be supportive of you.