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How I live my life
Tue, 01/15/2019 - 20:06Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Youth
Im a high School student who just lives a normal life but differently from others. Sometimes I do have my seizures in school but mine are different. Just sitting down and knowing that I have seizures and no one else around me know about my illness. There are times when i want to run away from a person asking what are epilepsy. I don't how to explain it but at the end i do. I always wished to know someone who has the same epilepsy as me but the ones i meet are different from but they are mean and cruel. Everyday taking medications day and night, being careful with my meds so i won't have a other seizure that im not suppose to have. If i feel ill i have to be sleeping beauty in order to feel better. Having so much energy then end up getting tired not being able to do anything in life. It gets tiring but HEY! life still moves on. Being a teenager and knowing people like me, their seizures stop at age 12 im 17. i wake up in the morning head to school and my daily basis on living my life of a 17 year old epileptic high schooler.
Comments
Would love to talk to you
Submitted by elllou on Sun, 2019-02-17 - 11:39
Would love to talk to you privately!! Anyway of doing that through email or can you have private messages on this website? Sorry to be a pain haha. I’m 18 and had epilepsy for around 4/5 years now
Unfortunately, every
Submitted by Misjoey101 on Fri, 2019-02-15 - 14:09
Unfortunately, every epileptic seems to develop the same level of social anxiety so it's hard to make friends that have the same condition as you do. High School should be the time when people are introduced to how the brain works and what consciousness is(like they can finally understand epilepsy). I know it's hard to finally hear " you won't grow out of it", but it will have it's benefits. Start writing your college essay and do it on epilepsy. It makes a good essay and universities have to accept a certain % of disabled students. Submit the same essay to local scholarships because they'll love it too. Join the Student Disability Center in college because all you'll need is epilepsy to get 1. extra time on tests AND 2. priority registration for classes. (you will have the first registration time and get into the best classes and all you're friends say "how the hell did you get that?". Just say " none of your business." Freshman buddies have the LAST TIME. You've got the first.) Special employment programs will appear once you graduate college. I know it's no fun but EMBRACE WHAT YOU CAN!