(Still a work in progress, feel free to suggest squares to fill in!)

There are many different types of seizures. Not all of them are going to be visible to someone who doesn’t know what to look for. The main type people can identify as a seizure with ease without any education is called a tonic-clonic seizure. The most common types that are trickier to identify, especially from the outside looking in but also sometimes for the person experiencing them, are absence seizures, which look kind of like the person is just sort of daydreaming/not paying attention if you don’t know to look for subtle signs that may vary from person to person, and myoclonic jerks, which look kind of just like a short muscle spasm a lot of the time. (I’m oversimplifying a bit here, but they’re both easy to overlook is the main point). I’m explaining this partly for explaining the types of seizures, of which these are only a few examples, but also to explain that epilepsy can be much more “invisible” than people think. I feel like the common perception is that if someone around you had epilepsy, you’d know, but that’s not always the case, so please, keep that in mind before you make assumptions that can harm or exclude the epileptics in your life, that you may not even be aware are there.

Wait5 deactivated the blog at some point, but I was able to scavenge these few from the depths of epilepsy Tumblr's forgotten past.

I dunno. Doesn't seem like a smart alternative for meds I've been taking my entire life but it seems like a good idea to me to avoid future kidney and liver problems. 😓

Still, I know that the day is coming when I won't be able to take that medication anymore, and I live in fear of it. As you say, I don't want to have to choose between not having seizures and not having a functioning liver.

Still gotta take 3000mg of keppra, 600 of zonegran, and b6 for the side effects. Just a fun story now to tell the grandkids.

TLDR; please try to avoid flashing lights on March 26th, epilepsy awareness day, to make yourself more aware of how society is often inaccessible to a portion of people with epilepsy. If you want to add stakes that will help the community as well, set an amount you will donate to an epilepsy charity each time you encounter flashing lights

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Just blah

Others' memory have decaying and old books as well, it's true, but they have catalogs. They have orderly rows of labelled shelves and organized categories. They might even have a whole staff of librarians, depending on how sharp they are. I have stacks and heaps and disorderly shelves of books, with no catalog, and one librarian who is doing their best.

Perhaps that was a failure on the part of your health care providers to explain the specifics of what they were doing. My EEG was a long time ago but I do remember them telling me what the strobe was for triggering seizures, which I was very not cool with, but it’s not like I had any say in the matter.

Fire trucks and police lights make my head hurt, and LEDs, I notice when they flicker. But the test itself, it's like it wasn't enough to induce one 🤷‍♀️

ooooo seizures coming in clutch!!!!!! being stabbed possibly in the month of June for having a wack brain ✊🏼