What an interesting question/topic! I honestly never thought about it too much, but I agree with what people are saying for the most part. I agree with the creativity aspect, especially during mania and hypomania. As for intelligence, that's more tricky. There are so many aspects to intelligence, even if you're just looking at IQ. So yeah we are all intelligent in one way or another, which I know is a cheesy answer. that being said, I do think that we possess certain insights that allow for things like better perspective taking, deeper reasoning, seeing connections etc. that others may not. But now I'm super intrigued by this idea so I'll definitely be looking into this more.