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Old Sep 11, 2017, 08:18 AM
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A second answer from me, with time travel...

Since I am closing on 60, a more interesting question would be going back in time and being able to choose not to have a MI. I do not have a formal "on the spectrum" diagnosis, but the AQ test puts me in the HFA/Asp range. I would choose not to have my social awkwardness if I had to pick between it and bipolar disorder. It has had more impact on my life. Either my type 2 bipolar is milder than most or I deal with it really well. Even though I spent most of the last 25 years moderately depressed (with some deep dives and some short hypomanic episodes), I have done quite well career wise and never missed much work. But the lack of a circle of friends and the hell I went through trying to date in my teens and early 20s would be what I would rather erase. I would not have been easy pickings for the older woman at my first professional job. While I appreciated it immensely at the time, it messed me up in the long run.

The flip side of that is it would cause a lot of things not to happen. I likely would have married in my 20s and never met my wife while single. I would not have my kids. So, like others, I am not sure I would want to change my life.
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