Hi, everyone. I wonder if I am different from other bipolars in this way, or if some of you are the same about movies? Even when I was very small, I did not want to go with other girls to "movie parties" unless I knew what movie they were going to see. But my mother made me go anyway, because she said if I didn't I would not have friends. (I had plenty of other friends who were not in the movie-party crowd.)

Adult friends just CANNOT SEEM TO ACCEPT that I will not sit through a movie or video if I don't like it. I guess they think it's rude of me to leave them sitting there to go read or embroider in the theater lobby, or to turn off the video if it's at my place, and offer the friend I'm watching it with to take it home and watch it without me.

Movies and videos really "suck me in," which I like! Good ones do, and so do bad ones. ("Bad" meaning bad for me -- obviously other people like the movies I don't like -- it is a matter of taste, after all...) So obviously I won't accept bad movies.

Anybody else like this? I am so tired of feeling demeaned or misunderstood about this issue. It's been a problem for my whole life, and too many times in the past, I succumbed to pressure and stuck around in a movie, feeling stifled, oppressed, and trapped.