Does anyone else do this?

I've honestly forgotten what I was like around the time I was diagnosed. I'm starting to think I've never really experienced 'true' mania or hypomania before, and those times when I was 'up' were really just good day streaks. To add to this, I've skipped meds on occasion and nothing happened. No symptom relapse or anything. I'm really starting to question whether or not this is actually real and if I was just being overdramatic when describing how I felt to my therapist/pdoc all those years ago.