Interacting with normal people

I just found out both my parents have bipolar. They aren't stable influences in my life at all. But Im not sure having a stable influence wouldn't help me. And I have a hard time relating to people without bipolar. My siblings have it also and it's all I've ever known. I find it hard to like people who don't have bipolar and all my friends have had it. As I write this I realize that maybe I don't need to like normal people. I find normal people totally boring. Now that I think about it normal people wouldn't understand bipolar enough to relate to me or try to help me. I'm just wondering if there is any need for me to befriend normal people. But just like normal people can't understand me, I can't understand normal people. Is there a problem with this?

What's "normal" ? All people have their own set of problems they deal with in life, it's good to learn to interact with people who are different than you.

Normal people are people who have normal moods. I can't relate to feeling calm.

There is no such thing as "normal". Even those without the disorder have their own issues besides mood swings. My sister doesn't have the disorder, and I wouldn't call her "normal" because she looks at life in complete different way than is to be expected by most. Normal is very subjective.

You've never felt calm? You're never outside of an episode????


*****!


Nobody can force you to interact with "normies", but you're kinda doing what the majority of us complain about...


Label them, box them, avoid them.


Just saying.

I've never felt calm. I'm serious.

I'd probably get that checked out. No one deserves to feel "abnormal" all the time. But I still consider that stereotyping going off your original post..

stereotypes and labels...... come from an extremely shallow understanding of things.... these terms are over-simplifications at an extreme level....

"normal" isnt enough to explain a person.... psychology doesnt comply to a single word.... people have a million and one issues, the way the brain works....

exactly like symptoms and diagnoses... they are there to describe a spectrum of things... a combination of things, but the underlying idea is that it is far more complicated than a single word to encompass an entire thing.... hence misdiagnoses....

what u consider "normal" is an overgeneralization of a million and one issues.... based out of your own disappointment... since they dont understand u, u dont have to understand them...

u dont have to do anything, u dont even have to understand bipolars... but u choose to, because u have a choice... inability to understand is NOT a fact, it IS possible to understand ur "enemy".... u just need to have an open mind.... by not seeing them as an "enemy," and more of an opportunity to grow....

BECAUSE in reality, the only thing making them the "enemy", the only thing making them "normal", the only thing making U "not normal" is simply U...