Ahh no , cause I don't think normal people exist. So we kinda are not picking up what each other is putting down. People who you think are normal are not all the same as each other either. My bf has no mental dx but he would probably try to do something to help the homless man out and at least try to make him smile, and he would too wonder how he got there. He does stuff like that often.

The females could have just felt a tad unsafe .. normal female instinct, who knows what they were thinking or talked about afterwards. Maybe they talked about how troubeling it is and helpless. Or maybe they were judgemental as some people are.

I can say this, even some bipolars are like that as well. Not all bipolars are careing and empathetic. I have met some who were very judgmental and cold ..shallow whatever you want to call it.

Even bipolars don't think or feel the same. I do not always fit in here in thought or feeling.

What I mean as these normal people are just as varied as anyone else. They don't all think the same either. Everyone has there own problems or issues to deal with. I don't really know..maybe it's who we are exposed to also.

I used to feel like there was some great divide ..us and them. But the more I thought about it I just see everyone as just themselves. Whoever that might be, I am sure I don't always understand them as well. You say they don't feel how we feel, and maybe not, but I know some do. But how do they feel? Thing is I bet someone saw you out laughing and chatting at times, maybe they thought ahh he is pretty normal. Kinda like how you noted that and decided that about them.

Anyways that is why I said this is how I see it, I realize that people don't all see things the same and thats ok. Just for me it was helpful to take the dividing lines down. Because I was stigmatizing them as well. I for one would like to be seen as a being first, individual second and bipolar very last..that is not who I am it's only one part. It is not a good feeling to be seen as just a bipolar.