I'm glad you asked because I've been thinking about it a lot as well... because for me, this is me, there was no start point and I don't think there'll be an end point. Sometimes I cope better with life than others.
For me it's more like being blind - it doesn't mean I'm 'ill', but it does mean I'm going to have to find ways of adapting to situations that a lot of other people will just deal with without having to think about it. But then meds have never worked for me, so the biochemical 'illness' route doesn't fit with my experience.
In many ways I'd like it to be an 'illness', then I could try & find a 'cure', instead of just being a fundementally flawed person (though I also think that none of us are perfect, and that is OK for everyone else but somehow unacceptable in me...)
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