Caleb told me something interesting this morning. He said our mutual friend Annmarie whom I’ve known for 27 years once said to him that she wishes he could've met me before. Before bipolar I'm guessing. Because I was so smart! Bipolar gets worse as time goes by and I've been diagnosed for nearly 20 years! I watch N3 get all those perfect scores on his exams- some even higher than 100%- and I wish I were that smart. But math was never my strong suit. It is for N3. N2 was always good at math in school too, even getting an award. I’ve been posting here since 2008- have you noticed a decline in my mental abilities? I've always been good at words. Started writing poetry at age 12 and wrote several poems a few years ago. I have all of them still. In two books. The "recent" ones are on my bipolar blog. Most people don't understand the newer stuff. If you'd like, I can private message a few. Some are dark but rest assured that I was of sound mind when I wrote them!