The only ones that I explain my thoughts and feelings to is T and my husband who is bipolar also. Everyone else gets: "I'm okay" is me saying I'm not good, "Good" is good, "I think I'm getting sick" or deflecting with "How are you?" are really really depressed and "Awesome" hypomanic.

I use spoon theory to explain Bipolar in general.
"Limitless" the movie to explain hypo-mania.