For what it's worth... I am not particularly creative either... but I think everyone is creative in their own ways, and some happen to be more creative than others.

Now, I don't know if scientific evidence implicates there is a strong connection between bipolar and creativity in general, but let's grossly assume that creativity is a *known* characteristic of bipolar. A "hallmark feature," if you will. Then I say, "So what? Not everyone is going to fit 100% criteria."

In my uneducated opinion, I don't think anyone is a fraud for having or not having a certain characteristic or symptom. I could be stupid and ignorant here, but I have yet to come across any medical literature that states, with confidence, that people with bipolar are guaranteed to have more creativity than the average person.

Also, creativity is subjective too, and can be quantified in an infinite number of imaginable ways. I don't know how any researcher can produce a work of substance without it being biased since there is no agreed upon way to quantify creativity.