The world will never know the ideas I had.

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I'm thinking about something important, and then I have a revelation, and then I have another revelation, and then another one. I'm thinking faster than I can talk. Sometimes all my consciousness goes into thinking and so I can't talk at all. I have all these ideas, but can't communicate them! A lot of the time, sadly, the more you know, the less you can communicate, so the world never gets to know what you know and you don't get to have them know. A lot of the time that's probably what autism is. Anther sad thing is that they think that the reason you can't talk is because you're dumb but really the reason you can't talk is because you're smart. I want to raise awareness for people like these so that their intelligence can get used and is not useless.


Yes, I've been diagnosed with Bipolar I Disorder.

Carry around a small notebook and something to write with. Write down your ideas. Problem solved.

Ahhh....the ubiquitous "flight of ideas" that accompanies mania. I can say I've been there before.....

Unfortunately not, as in my case anyway the next idea comes along before the previous one can be put into words, verbally or otherwise. And then another, and perhaps another, and maybe one more on top of that. Cascade effect. I've often wondered if there's such a thing as mania without any depression tacked onto it.

I know what you're feeling. It's the same with me. I am thinking so deeply about these great ideas to change the world, all these thoughts i keep to myself and i don't know what to do with them.

And yes they think you are dumb, in my case my lack of expressions leads them to think i don't understand anything at all. When i am just processing all the information, making visual images, schemes, etc.

This is a sign that you need to call your doctor. When brilliant ideas start flying by so fast that you cannot keep track of them, you probably need a medication change.

Do try to keep up with them in a notebook though. Read back through later and you'll be surprised. Some ideas, you will want to pursue. Others, you will wonder why you even wrote them down.

I'm Bipolar I also, so I have experience with this.

I've not experienced any medication for Bi-Polar that controlled mania in any way other than to kill it completely. Where's the fun in that?

Oh, and I forgot to tell you: by the time I calm down and am able to talk, I've forgotten my ideas. So then I start thinking again trying to remember again, and then the cycle starts all over again.


And yes, the ideas keep coming faster than I can talk about them, let alone write them down.

Assuming I am Bi-Polar, which come to think of it, I don't think I do, as I've never cycled, and the meds I got for it mostly didn't do anything, or severely flattened my affect - cerebrally.

I think that this may have something to do with the verbal communication difficulties that are associated with ASD's. I experience this sort of thing, too. It drives me crazy, in that I can come up with these amazing ideas, yet, by the time I am able to figure out how to put one small part of the idea into words, I have forgotten the rest, or I let my mind go with the flow, and little, if anything ever gets out. In fact, if I try too hard to verbalize my ideas during one of these periods of deep thought and revelation, I run the risk of my brain locking up on me.

I have learned to deal with my inherent social ineptitudes and found ways to at least get by in this realm, and my sensory issues have abated with age... however, the problem mentioned by the OP has actually intensified with age, and is probably the only thing that I categorically dislike about being an aspie.