Except that the general public, who know nothing of bipolar, take this one comment and construct their image of the illness, and all of us who suffer it, as a superpower, not some grandiose moment in a very complicated affliction.

If KW were speaking of mania to an audience consisting of bipolar patients and nobody else, we would understand the superpower comment. It would be appropriate, if not humorous, but in an open statement to the ignorant, it's fuel on the bonfire of stigma.

Why do you have to take meds? Why do you need time off work? Why can't you work? You say you have bipolar - K West says it's a superpower. You must not really have it.