I am Hypo-manic and I lived my life as such. To me it was normal and everyone else was just slow or lazy.
I passed school by acing tests but only got D's an E's because I never did school work or homework. I aced all the end of year exams despite the fact that I Christmas-treed all the little bubbles using a special formula only I could understand at the time.
I wanted to be the BEST Electrician in the world but quit the day I got my Master license to go into air conditioning because I was bored.
I was going to be the best air conditioning expert in the world but I quit when I got my State Contractor license because I was bored and went into electronics, computers and software. I was going to be better than Steve Jobs and that skinny dweeby rich kid named Bill.
In all of these ventures I specialized in data centers, phone switching stations and computer centers.
I quit electronics to go into business myself as an electrical / mechanical contractor. That lasted a while because I did only specialized work in the most interesting buildings, again in data, tele and advanced automation.
As usual, I was the best – I just didn’t know how to make money.
And that is just 10 years of the 40 years I have been working.
Same modus operandi in recreation and family life except I only had 1 wife.
Hypo-manic people ride just below the threshold of the manic experience but we do not swing to depression. We experience sadness but not depression.
It’s the real normal. Everyone else are mere puny humans.
