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Originally Posted by TheDragon
And just for the record, I think that too often people with MI try to correlate MI with uniqueness, especially in the past. I think that many unique individuals past and present have often struggled with MI, but just because one has MI, doesn't make one special.
Sorta like square = rectangle, but rectangle does not have to be a square...but...less absolute. I think you know what I mean. Boy we went a bit off topic...pleasedunshootmevenus.
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I think the thing I'm trying to say is that we're
not unique.
I think the real thing I'm trying to point out is that so many people say "I am diagnosed having bipolar. My life is ruined. I can never have a family/hold a job/I now have no purpose." When, in fact, that is totally not true.
But, perhaps you can't sit at a desk from 8-5 trying to reach goals, deal with office politics, making meetings, etc. etc. Because for example, me, my focus is all over the place. I'm incredibly creative. But, it comes and goes like a whirlwind. So, setting a deadline (I will have 5 chapters of my book done by mid-May,) often doesn't happen. Or, since I have to work because, you know, art doesn't really pay unles you're lucky, "I have to have this, this, and this project done by March 6th." That doesn't work out for me either. And so, what happens? I get in trouble. And, that's the nature of societies work world.
I'm a circle trying to fit into a square. Sure, I can sit in the square hole, but that doesn't mean I fill it in properly. However, there is no "alternate" type of jobs, except if you happen to be extremely lucky. So, I will be a circle in a square, and I know eventually that will cause me to lose my job, because squares don't understand that I'm a circle, and although I am a circle, that doesn't mean I'm less I'm just different and do things in a different way.