It still baffles me that over 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy or some type of seizure disorder and many people don't seem to know what to do. This alone has continued to disturb me as I navigated through public school, brushing off my mother's wishes of wanting to home school me (which would've been better and a lot less hazardous, more than likely). A lot of people have illnesses like Diabetes I & II and many people seem to get what this is, know someone that has it, and usually knows what to do - at least that's how it seems, but epilepsy has usually felt like some weird taboo. People flip out, get scared, don't know what to do, and there you are hanging in the balance.
I am going to try to reach out to people this year about epilepsy, try to step outside of my comfort bubble and go for it. We need a society that's more accepting to the idea that people do have seizures/epilepsy and that anyone with a brain can have one at any point in their life.
I am going to try to reach out to people this year about epilepsy, try to step outside of my comfort bubble and go for it. We need a society that's more accepting to the idea that people do have seizures/epilepsy and that anyone with a brain can have one at any point in their life.