This type of mistaken perceptions affect a lot of people, not only you. At my place, it's common to be viewed as an internet fraudster if you don't go to work, but constantly on your phone, especially a laptop, and are able to live comfortably without seeking assistance from others.
It becomes awkward and awful how people in this current era after being told how the Internet have made the world a global village, how there are more opportunities online than in our locality, how people could work from the comfort of there home and yet, they are glued to the idea of, "one needs to leave the house or there home at a particular hour and back at a defined hour" to be considered employed.
It's just way too backwards and discomforting. It tells how the string the traditional way of doing things have gripped such a person. It makes them adamant to change and when things don't change, they break.