For me bipolar is just an intensity of real situations. I really do feel X way but maybe more intensely as I normally would. I am bipolar which means at times I'll "get the flu" without the flu part or get these awesome demented ideas that I must share with the world because they'll think there awesome as I do. I have a very hard time pigeon holding my moods no matter how much others try to get me to label things as mania or depression because to me it just is, I really do feel like this and labeling it depression, mania, or psychosis is dismissive. Saying that because I am bipolar I'll be less politically correct at times or slower isn't, in my opinion. A lot of people feel I don't accept my dx because of that and I'll be the first to admit I don't accept the intensity of it but it is just me ampt up.

My friends and family have grown to love those parts of me. Even if they do occasionally sit me down to tell me they are worried because I'm out there right now. I did have to accept that my ideas of a successful career was over because Amped up me is unacceptable to the general public but that's the publics fault not mine. I also had to accept that even if I'm financially a burden to society as the awesome human being that I am I give back way more when well than can monetarily be calculated.

So I guess I have a weird acceptance but I've never been one to have a normal way of approaching things. Hopefully I make sense I'm on my way to "la la land"