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Re: Epilepsy

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-02-04 21:29

zhangray4 wrote:

> The doctor I just switched to last year
> said it best: there are many people with epilepsy and brain
> disorders out there, but they won't openly admit it because
> they are afraid they will get looked down upon. I felt like
> that way as well.
>

Yours is an interesting story and confirms my thought that the test conditions in the doctor's office are not typical of the everyday experience of playing clarinet or, really, much of anything else.

I wonder if, these days, people with epilepsy are so much afraid of being "looked down upon" as they are of being told they shouldn't do things they love because they might cause a seizure. If an activity isn't demonstrably a direct, primary seizure trigger and the seizures themselves don't put the epileptic or others in danger either in the short or long term, I don't know why anyone would try to prevent them from doing anything they *can* do.

Karl

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