Susan Boyle has epilepsy

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Susan Boyle - Susan Boyle Reveals Battle With Epilepsy
http://www.contactmusic.com/news/sus...ilepsy_1274310

Singing sensation Susan Boyle's school years were blighted by fainting fits after she was diagnosed with epilepsy.

The star has previously revealed she was teased and tormented by classmates while growing up in her native Scotland, admitting they targeted her because of her learning disabilities.

Boyle has now revealed her problems were heightened when doctors told her she was suffering with the neurological disorder, which is characterised by seizures.

She tells the Daily Mail's Weekend magazine, "I was protected in cotton wool. They (parents) thought they were doing the right thing. They called me touchy. At school I used to faint a lot. It's something I've never talked about. I had epilepsy.

"People in the public eye don't have things like that. All through my childhood they'd say epilepsy is to do with mental function. And now I realise it's not. I was up against all those barriers. It wasn't easy."

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I posted it yesterday afternoon: "Another Star Reveals Her Battle"

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This might be of interest to some people here:

Susan Boyle - Susan Boyle Reveals Battle With Epilepsy
http://www.contactmusic.com/news/sus...ilepsy_1274310

Singing sensation Susan Boyle's school years were blighted by fainting fits after she was diagnosed with epilepsy.

The star has previously revealed she was teased and tormented by classmates while growing up in her native Scotland, admitting they targeted her because of her learning disabilities.

Boyle has now revealed her problems were heightened when doctors told her she was suffering with the neurological disorder, which is characterised by seizures.

She tells the Daily Mail's Weekend magazine, "I was protected in cotton wool. They (parents) thought they were doing the right thing. They called me touchy. At school I used to faint a lot. It's something I've never talked about. I had epilepsy.

"People in the public eye don't have things like that. All through my childhood they'd say epilepsy is to do with mental function. And now I realise it's not. I was up against all those barriers. It wasn't easy."

I was teased mercilessly. I even ran away from school, once in 3rd or 4th grade, once in 6th grade, and twice in 8th grade. I was considered a 'troublemaker'. I was kicked out of school in 6th grade and forced to go to a school for kids with emotional problems, which didn't make the situation any better. In the two weeks before being kicked out, I had punched a number of kids for teasing me. The worst was a girl in my homeroom who refused to stop after I warned her to stop. When she refused, I punched her in the mouth.

In 8th grade when I ran away from school twice, I labeled the problem, instead of the kids picking on me. One time the school was about to go to PE(they had some sort of contract with Georgetown University to use their facilities). Just as I got on the bus, one kid started teasing me. I was eventually told I couldn't go to PE that day. Just as I had disembarked the bus and was walking back towards the school, the same kid that had teased me the first time, leaned out the window of the bus and started doing it again. I immediately back on the bus and proceeded to kick the idiot in the teeth.

Of course the school system didn't care.

While I won't go n' do what other kids did, emotionally I 'sort of' feel like I can identify with kids that perpetrated murder-suicides in their school. A few that I remember are Kip Kinkel(Paducah, Kentucky), Dylan Klebold n' Eric Harris(Columbine, Colorado) and there was one in Iron Range, Minnesota when I didn't live very far from it. In that one, the student first killed his parents. Then he went to school and killed those that teased him, that the school did nothing about. There are many more, but those are the ones' I remember.

I am not saying I had(or ever have) felt like going to that extreme. But those kids were constantly tormented at school.

The only exception to the ones' I mentioned, is that Dylan Klebold n' Eric Harris were part of some weird thing called the 'trench coat mafia', and while they had been teased, they had mentioned on their website of blowing up their school.

The running theme is, being treated like an outcast, and being emotionally torn down for reacting to it. Not how they reacted to it.

I am sorry if it seems like I 'went off the deep end'. I still hurt from, not only the teasing. But that I was criticized for reacting to it.