it has been occurring to me I may have had a complex partial

[petero]

I was diagnosed by having TCs which is what I've always had as far as I know. Buuuut, what I thought might have been interictal psychosis may have been a CP.

but- have you ever had anyone be very interactive with you during a CP?
for example, amongst strangers and there you go talking or making some strange interactive actions (staring at someone, actions directed toward someone,...). And keep in mind these are strangers unaware you have epilepsy... and so the stranger starts talking back, conversing, and starts being also "interactive".
and if so, did it ever mess up your mind?

 

[petero]

also keep in mind I'm talking about the type of seizure where you're unconscious, but still active

having had only TCs they're the only type I've become most familiar with both through experience and by learning about them.

 

[arnie]

Complex partials are pretty much all I have. I remain pretty much aware of what's going on, but I apparently do the lip-smacking thing, and swallowing, which I am totally unaware of. That is the "alteration of consciousness" they talk about in the description of complex partials. I can continue what I am doing, for the most part, and it's mostly my family who are aware that I'm having a seizure. Strangers (I have asked some of them afterwords) think that I'm just lost in thought, or spacing out or chewing gum or something. I know that sometimes my speech comes out garbled, or not at all, but, again, I think it lasts for a short enough time (30-40 seconds?) that people just kind of ignore it. It has never really "messed up my mind", at least not that I can remember. Keep in mind that over the last 30+ years I have probably had over 10,000 simple and complex partial seizures, so I'm pretty used to them.
I did have one the other night where I zoned out so completely I actually lost a bit of time (45 seconds?) and only have a very hazy memory of the parts I remember at all. That was a little different for me.