Exceptional Abilities? Or Exceptional Disabilities?

Exceptional abilities have a downside. You think you reside above the norm? No. Spikes into brilliance are counter-balanced by dips to hell.

Sometimes I think that all the things that are wrong with me enable the best of me.

My compulsions, my addictions, and my enormous ego drive me everyday to the word processor for 2.5 years to complete a first draft of a science fiction novel.

IRL my bad behavior loses me most of my friends, so that I seek refuge online: any smidgen of "not-in-real-time" online success is due to my "real time" failures. I'm a writer because I'm not a talker?

Sometimes I even think that for every slice of pleasure I receive, later I swallow meds for the pain that follows. Or the pain precedes, in a twisted form of "inspiration."

@hg47