Some kid at school said to my son, "you're bipolar," and, given that he has autism, he took it rather literally, and worried, since he knows there's a hereditary component, and he's in the third (or possibly even fourth or fifth) generation of maniacs on my side of the family. Today I told him not to worry, the chances of his being both on the autistic spectrum and the bipolar/schizo spectrum was very small. Unfortunately he then pointed out that I was diagnosed autistic as a child, and if I could hit the "crackpot" like that, then surely he could too.

I still think the other kid was just using it as a term of abuse, because my son is obviously different, rather than describing a reality.