It depends on how the symptoms are playing out. When it's as "I'm a genius/getting everything and a half done/ laughing at nothing/ feeling invincible" sorts of things, I tend to recognize it. (Well, and seeing that jaw-dropped WTF?! look on people's faces, haha.) Even if they're happening along with less positive things like "ugh, people are so slow and stupid and/or wanting to buy uncharacteristic things etc..

I don't tend to recognize it is when it's in negative form… extreme irritability, frustration with every.flipping.thing etc. I think it might be because those are things I experience in depression too. They do happen a bit differently, but it's hard to recognize which direction they're indicating on account of being too much in the intensity to be able to step back. In hypo, it's from thinking being too jumbled and fast paired with total impatience. In depression, it's from the overwhelm. That the world keeps demanding of me what I can't manage.

So… yes. And no.