The psychedelic-using community itself as a whole does not seem to take HPPD seriously, whether it's people doing shrooms for fun, Caribbean psilocybin retreats, your average LSD/shroom dealer/user/friend/trip sitter, etc. They all seem to downplay the risk or not even recognize the issue's reality. This seems to be especially true on Reddit.
Before you got HPPD, what was the attitude of other people around you (about HPPD?)