Last night I was talking to my best friend about E and she was really surprised that people could be so ignorant about it. She asked me if in this day and age I thought that some people really didn't understand how to recognise when someone is having a seizure and when someone is just being silly. I told her that from my experience with t-c that people do know it's a seizure. I personally haven't known anyone who didn't know, although they might not know what to do. I then said that it was however different with other types of seizures and i'm sure that many people wouldn't recognise say a complex partial or other type of seizure as a seizure. She thought that was dumb and sad that today in our modern society people still don't understand. I personally think that she's rather enlightened on the topic which is nice. I don't expect most people would be able to identify all types of seizures without having been exposed to them previously or been trained to identify them. Whilst it would be good to educate more and more people, the good hearted ignorants are not upsetting to me. It's the people who hear about Epilepsy and refuse to accept it as legitimate like for example someone I saw comment on a youtube posting. He said he was 23 and had never heard of such a thing as a seizure and obviously people will just come up with any excuse for their behaviour (ie. daydreaming). The good hearted ignorant can be taught, the stupid ignorant doesn't care for the truth.
Talking to a friend about E
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Some people can't separate problems in the head. They are all lumped together. Usually as crazy or lazy. Seizures don't even enter their mind.
I even told a doctor about my partial seizures, she looked at me like I was crazy, and said "not typical, very weird" like she thought I was a nutcase. Needless to say I got another doctor quick.
How can we expect the general public to understand when even doctors don't? Lack of education, lack of education. We need to get organized, like the Autism community and teach people the facts.
I even told a doctor about my partial seizures, she looked at me like I was crazy, and said "not typical, very weird" like she thought I was a nutcase. Needless to say I got another doctor quick.
How can we expect the general public to understand when even doctors don't? Lack of education, lack of education. We need to get organized, like the Autism community and teach people the facts.