Semantics Facebook Rant!

just wanted to save a copy of my Facebook status:

Here's the thing - and I may be getting caught up in semantics, here - but I absolutely hate the use of the term "disorder". I don't have a mental disorder, I don't have a mental illness, I'm just not average and therefore I've been given a label with a negative connotation and stigma attached.

I don't HAVE bipolar, I AM bipolar. It's not an infection that will go away with antibiotics, it's a part of me. Some days it's completely wonderful, and some days it feels like I'm bleeding hundreds of emotions through every orifice and they're really sticky and gross and no matter how hard I try I can't make them stop and I can't stop crying or laughing or raging or all three at once and my thoughts won't stop racing and I write run-on sentences.

Even those days are worth it when I can look back on them and think about who I would be if I'd never had that experience.