National Infertility Awareness Week is dedicated to not only raising awareness about the disease and treatment of infertility among those it could potentially affect, but also is an opportunity to bust the myths and misconceptions about it, to gain more respect from the public to recognize it as an emotionally devastating medical condition and to advocate for resources from lawmakers, insurance companies and researchers. All too often, however, infertility patients don’t speak about their condition, including to their closest family members and friends. Some may feel ashamed about not being able to do what they feel everyone else can do naturally. Others are too emotionally devastated or feel infertility is not how they want to be defined. So can a disease so shrouded in secrecy get the respect, research, and funding it deserves if its sufferers don’t speak out?