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• We are going to lose my grandmother because we can no longer afford her treatment.💔😭

We haven't received any donations for the past two days. Because of the lack of support, my family has been giving up our daily food just to buy my grandmother's medication, which costs €420 per week, or €60 per day.

🔴If we can no longer provide her medication, her condition will become critically dangerous.💔🆘

Please don't let my grandmother suffer or reach a critical condition because we cannot afford her treatment.💔😥

Hilda🙏💔😭

We wouldn't need to deal with people who think they know better than us what is triggering/how to tag it, because we could click a button that marks something as unsafe. Adding an image, GIF, or video to your post could prompt a pop-up similar to " Post without tags?" that tells you to consider whether or not this is safe. We should be able to scroll the #epilepsy tag in peace.

Why not use XKit Rewritten?

XKit Rewritten is helpful, yes, but it doesn't do shit for eyestrain images. And it doesn't pause GIFs in Activity/notifications. And videos still autoplay. Not to mention, I shouldn't have to download an extension just to use the site without getting actual brain damage. That should be in the site itself, and the site should introduce you to its accessibility features inmediatamente.

If this website can keep people from seeing tits and ass (or trans people, intersex people, BIPOC and Palestinians talking about their oppression and liberation), it can keep people from seeing things that can kill.

Well to first understand them you need to know what a seizure is. If you aren’t familiar I’ve made a post explaining them here.

A seizure trigger is essentially a factor that can cause a seizure or lower a person’s seizure threshold in someone who is already susceptible.

Some triggers include: missing medications, heat, flashing lights, menstrual cycle timing, alcohol, fevers, stress, fatigue and even certain times of the day.

I’ve already briefly spoken a bit about photosensitivity as a trigger via an ask and it can be found here.

Photosensitivity comes up a lot on this blog, however I want to note that using any kind of trigger against a person with seizures is wrong and dangerous.

A big problem with photosensitivity is that it can be difficult to get the person away from the triggers compared to other ones and as long as flashing lights are in front of them they are likely to continue seizing.

This can lead into status epilepticus which can happen in epileptic seizures. This is considered when a person is having a seizure lasting longer than 5 minutes. This can lead to brain damage and even death.

Aside from the risk of status, the person can also risk injuries from falling including concussions, fractures, and more.

People are NOT joking when they are saying you can kill someone by triggering them into a seizure.

An epileptic seizure is defined as being a sudden, uncontrollable surge of electrical activity in the brain.

Epilepsy is a brain (neurological) disorder defined by recurrent unprovoked seizures (caused by abnormal electrical activity)

These seizures are then categorized as being either focal or generalized

A focal seizure is one that occurs with abnormal activity in only one area of the brain. This area can be any lobe of the brain.

They are then categorized as being either preserved consciousness meaning the person maintains a level of awareness and responsiveness or impaired consciousness where the person does not maintain a full level of awareness and responsiveness. You may also hear it be referred to as aware or unaware.

A generalized seizure occurs when the whole brain experiences abnormal activity. This is what causes the most commonly known seizure, tonic-clonic’s. However, many other types fall under this category including myoclonic, atonic, and absence.

Treatment involves anti-epileptic drugs and for more drug resistant types implanted devices and brain surgery can be options.

For more information on what an epileptic seizure is and epilepsy I will link Mayo Clinic, The Epilepsy Foundation, and Cleveland Clinic.

There are also non epileptic seizures which are sometimes called psychogenic non epileptic seizures or functional seizures. These are essentially events that resemble an epileptic seizure but are not caused by abnormal brain activity.

It’s important to note that these are NOT faked.

They can have either a physical cause or a mental cause

Physical causes include head trauma, sleep issues, cardiac arrhythmias, low blood sugar, fevers, migraines.

Mental causes include dissociative disorders, anxiety, depression, personality disorders, PTSD.

Treatment typically involves treating the underlying cause.

For more information on non epileptic seizures I will link The Epilepsy Foundation and Cedars-Sinai

We need to start commenting under other people's posts about how to properly warn for flashing lights and eyestrain. We need to be emailing and calling companies about their possibly triggering advertisements that could induce seizures. We need to stop tolerating ableism and start speaking up for the more vulnerable.

Also, stop putting epilepsy warnings. That's like saying "warning: schizophrenia" on a post including unreality or "warning: dyslexia" on a post with a typing quirk. First off, the disability mentioned isn't the only group of people that this could trigger. Second, it doesn't truly get the message across and instead makes it worse for those with the disability-- scrolling through the epilepsy tag on Tumblr should get you to view the content of other epileptic people, but no, you just get a bunch of flashing lights and eyestrain, even though you could instead tag for, oh I dunno, flashing lights and eyestrain.

We need to start commenting under other people's posts about how to properly warn for flashing lights and eyestrain. We need to be emailing and calling companies about their possibly triggering advertisements that could induce seizures. We need to stop tolerating ableism and start speaking up for the more vulnerable.

Also, stop putting epilepsy warnings. That's like saying "warning: schizophrenia" on a post including unreality or "warning: dyslexia" on a post with a typing quirk. First off, the disability mentioned isn't the only group of people that this could trigger. Second, it doesn't truly get the message across and instead makes it worse for those with the disability-- scrolling through the epilepsy tag on Tumblr should get you to view the content of other epileptic people, but no, you just get a bunch of flashing lights and eyestrain, even though you could instead tag for, oh I dunno, flashing lights and eyestrain.

We need to start commenting under other people's posts about how to properly warn for flashing lights and eyestrain. We need to be emailing and calling companies about their possibly triggering advertisements that could induce seizures. We need to stop tolerating ableism and start speaking up for the more vulnerable.

Also, stop putting epilepsy warnings. That's like saying "warning: schizophrenia" on a post including unreality or "warning: dyslexia" on a post with a typing quirk. First off, the disability mentioned isn't the only group of people that this could trigger. Second, it doesn't truly get the message across and instead makes it worse for those with the disability-- scrolling through the epilepsy tag on Tumblr should get you to view the content of other epileptic people, but no, you just get a bunch of flashing lights and eyestrain, even though you could instead tag for, oh I dunno, flashing lights and eyestrain.

We need to start commenting under other people's posts about how to properly warn for flashing lights and eyestrain. We need to be emailing and calling companies about their possibly triggering advertisements that could induce seizures. We need to stop tolerating ableism and start speaking up for the more vulnerable.

Also, stop putting epilepsy warnings. That's like saying "warning: schizophrenia" on a post including unreality or "warning: dyslexia" on a post with a typing quirk. First off, the disability mentioned isn't the only group of people that this could trigger. Second, it doesn't truly get the message across and instead makes it worse for those with the disability-- scrolling through the epilepsy tag on Tumblr should get you to view the content of other epileptic people, but no, you just get a bunch of flashing lights and eyestrain, even though you could instead tag for, oh I dunno, flashing lights and eyestrain.