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Removed Epilepsy Jokes

Sun, 03/16/2008 - 10:04

Hi everyone,

 While I appreciate good humor, making jokes about a person's health and well-being in my mind is not considered good humor, or even  humor at all.  Some people may find that it helps to make 'light' or laugh during tough times, but for others, it really hurts and feeds into the discrimination and stigma of epilepsy and seizures. Thus, I have taken administrative privileges to remove the thread on epilepsy jokes from this public site.

People who wish to share jokes about people with epilepsy, please do so on private sites or among yourselves in another way. Or better yet, create a thread that shares the positives about epilepsy!

Epi_help

Resource Specialist

Comments

Re: Removed Epilepsy Jokes

Submitted by carolynnstegmaier on Sun, 2008-03-16 - 18:28
Thank you for removing this. 

Re: Removed Epilepsy Jokes

Submitted by sophia_hill on Tue, 2008-03-18 - 09:15
thanks patty, i found it was not nice, as you know one of our members was not at well, and i felt like the "dead ep" joke would caurse alot of grief if that person saw it. thanks

Re: Removed Epilepsy Jokes

Submitted by meadow915 on Sat, 2008-03-22 - 14:59
I'm a newbie here & didn't see it, but I for one really appreciate your sensitivity.

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