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Books for kids with absense seizures?
Sun, 03/17/2019 - 18:53Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Youth
Hi, my son is 10 and just been diagnosed with absence seizures.
Is there any books that explain these types of seizures well?
He also has ADHD and learning difficulties and this new diagnosis has made him anxious.
Comments
Books don't really talk about
Submitted by Misjoey101 on Thu, 2019-03-21 - 18:28
Books don't really talk about it until you start reading college textbooks. A man named Kurt Eichenwald( a successful journalist) just wrote a memoir about his experience with epilepsy https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Unraveled-Memoir-Kurt-Eichenwald/dp/0399593624 . But....idk if he had absense seizures or if a kid would want to read it.
Have you looked at the
Submitted by Amy Jo on Mon, 2019-03-18 - 00:05
Have you looked at the options on amazon (search books using search term absence seizures), a few kid books come up that might be for younger than 10 but if it helps make sense of things, who cares.