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"Seizures aren't scary, just plain annoying"
  by: Psyko

I'm in 8th grade and I was just diagnosed with epilepsy about 3 months ago and I have grand mal and petite mal seizures. The thing that I think is annoying is that everyone will come up to me and be like, "It's gotta be so scary.." and stuff like that and I try to tell them that quite honestly, It's not! They don't seem to understand that during the seizure, nobody's home... the other thing is that because of the stupid seizures I'm not allowed to do a lot of the things I like to do...