Am I bipolar?

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Well I can't answer you that.
I just have some knowledge about bipolar and I was never fully manic, just hypomanic.
But the last time I was hypomanic it started with a "mixed episode", so sympoms out of depression and (hypo)mania at the same time.
But, also ASD can sometimes just look like bipolar with moodfluctuations. So the problem by this combination is that ASD can sometimes just look like Bipolar without having it and sometimes they are comorbit. So this combination can be hard to dx.
So, I would be carefull with selfdx and if you really also have Bipolar it sounds to me at the moment (not having much knowledge about you) like "rapid cycling" and there you deffinitly need treatment.

I was misdiagnosed with Bipolar around your age and I must say it was a pain to have that diagnosis overturned. My past few doctors agree that the only ailment I had in my teens was lifelong insomnia compounded by abuse and puberty. I wouldn't hop on the med train without fully understanding the battle, especially when you don't need the meds and each side effect from them creates a new disorder chemically. Have you looked at the criteria in the DSM-IV? Once you get diagnosed with Bipolar there is no redemption.........

Of course there is.
I got missdx or had wrong suspicions more than once, things like this happen. And after a shrink found out that the diagnosis was not correct, it was corrected or just dropped.
You can also always get a second opinion and it is also very often your very own decision which diagnostic evaluations you share with other shrinks or not.

Yes. Paranoia often accompanies extremely severe mania. Not everyone with mania becomes psychotic, and not everyone with psychotic mania will experience paranoia-type psychosis, but the more severe the mania, the more likely paranoia is.

My doctor had to put some strange note in my chart because he said he could not overturn it legally. Now there is a note/code of "Hx BiPolar" and he said it cannot be removed, but explains elsewhere why he thought it was wrong. I do not transfer my medical records when I move from the problems this has caused.

Okay, maybe the diagnostic system in your country is a bit different, that's possible.
I never transfered any medical records (exept to my GP) from one shrink to the other, because I also want to deside myself what to give them and so on and some stuff written about me in the past is sadly just BS, but most is quite alright.