I can tell with, I don't know, 70%—or in some cases much higher, accuracy, whether someone has had severe depressions or SZ or (some) BDP, at pretty much first glance, definitely some with BP, when they are completely stable and not so much just by talking to them. Same with ASD (but I might confuse SZ and ASD). Probably not when overmedicated and possibly not with the same accuracy those with BP-II (there just is quite some group I miss). Nothing to do with details: I don't see pretty much any.

It sounds delusional, of course clinicians have said it is (my current one doesn't even believe our empathic abilities are any good, ever, as in theory of mind; it's not something I share unless manic and of course my accuracy goes up to 100% , but really, it might), but it has been proven (not the accuracy so much, might one day do a real experiment).

We act. So do people with unipolar depression and ASD: always. We do it with much more finesse than those with ASD, but, paradoxically, that difference is sometimes hard to see.

Anyone else noticed this? Purely intuitively, of course.

In other words, I/we might make a more accurate diagnosis than most psychiatrists, in a minute or so. I don't know, maybe.

In other words, our theory of mind, more so towards the SZ end and maybe some subgroup, is (I'd say most likely) so very good that we translate per "type" of person. Problem is that the "translations" are not really very useful for correctly rationalising, where mistakes are made, being too confident about our ability to rationalise/express, considering it as good as our theory of mind.

People with ASD might have a similar ability based on details, equally prone to overconfident mistakes, but the other way round: abstracting/reducing or "derationalising".

Does this sound delusional, honestly?

Anyway, most people clearly see mood swings and changes in energy, in me.

Edit:
At any rate, most/all kinds of delusions start off, and/or contain, a lot of truth. Finding it just isn't always easy or "necessary": checks and balances being rather impaired.

Another edit:
Similarly, we might believe that others are conscious about what they do, how they act, exactly, in the greater scheme of things. That is clearly messing with the (delusional) truth: most people just do.

People without problems just float around freely, mostly unaware of anything, really.

Best to create problems: borderline personality or some nice anxiety disorder, maybe. Even if you're naturally gifted/endowed, like us.

Real freedom is not floating, but flying: going somewhere.