I have an IQ in the gifted, bordering on genius, range. I am gifted in music with perfect pitch and can pick up and play almost any instrument you put into my hands. I have been known to cry at symphonies. A perfectly pitched male chorus makes me cry. If I walk into a room with a tile floor and it has a square table in it, the table MUST line up with the tile floor. I have seven power saws and know how to use all of them and do so regularly. I can fix anything around the house including plumbing and electricity.

I was a slow reader in school. I could pick out every single grammatic, punctuation, and spelling error but could read a paragraph and not even begin to tell you the content. It wan't until my second year of university that I figured out a workable method of reading for content.

I, too, worry about my bipolar meds taking away some of these abilities but at the age of 56 I'm not really, really worried about it and would rather live a better quality of life that suffer like I have the past 30 years.

I bought a book called Finding Your Bipolar Muse recently which is about this very subject. It is about reclaiming the talents that can be lost when taking bipolar meds. I haven't read it yet but hope that it might provide some insight into regaining control over my creative side.