I swear, if there's a hundred people in a crowded store and two of them are bipolar, the other one will find me and we end up bonding over our bipolarity. It almost seems like we attract each other like moths to a flame. I've always thought that was weird---what, do we give off some kind of aura that only other bipolars can see?

But it's not the worst thing in the world, because I've met a few really neat people that way. Which is good, because I don't know very many folks with it otherwise and I feel like an odd duck most of the time. I'm the only diagnosed BP in my family (although my older son is almost certainly BP and I'm sure my mother was as well) so it gets a little lonely. It's good to have friends who "get it".