Sick of people making fun of phobias

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I´m really getting sick and tired of people that don´t respect and make fun of other people´s phobias. I know that for someone who doesn´t have any it might seem hard to believe that some of us feel so strongly towards some issues, but it´s just a matter of simple and plain RESPECT. Ever since I can remember i´ve been afraid of heights. It´s something I can´t control and literally makes me sick to my stomache. I´ve even passed out on some ocasions, as a result of my parents forcing me to go up the Sears Tower and getting on some rides when I was a kid,because they simply thaought i was joking. It took them years to actually believe i have a phobia and it´s nothing i can just stop clowning around about, as they used to tell me. On airplanes i´ve had panik attacks and usually have to take some meds when i fly, and even then theres still that little voice in the back of my head telling me oh oh, why are you so calm when you´re sohigh in the air. But anyways,,,,it hasn´t just been my parents growing up,,,obviously my brothers would do the same and start jumping up and down on elevator, telling me we would crash or something. And even now as an adult I rarely use escalators for example, and if i´m with friends and need to go up to the second or third floor, they simply don´t understand and just say,,,come on, don´t worry nothing is gonna happen.They don´t get that it doesn´t work like that, i simply just go use the stairs and meet up with them upstairs. Sometimes they make a fuss, sometimes they don´t. So,please, for the rest of you that can identify with this situation, show some respect and simple try to understand a person instead of making matters worse.