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Bullying at school
Thu, 05/22/2014 - 00:55As a teenager, I have been the subject of ruthless bullying simply because I need to pay close attention to factors that can trigger a seizure, stop doing everything in the middle of one and perform some first aid myself (teachers know and can do nothing other than watching out for my safety), go to nurse’s office for midday medicines, cannot play with friends for an extended time (doing so may induce a seizure), and must regularly go to my doctor and miss classes. As a result, I am being singled out, and peers laugh at me for being different.
I don’t know if you have this situation yourselves. If so, how do you deal with it?
I forgot something. When
Submitted by just_joe on Tue, 2014-05-27 - 19:25
I forgot something. When people asked my whar epilepsy was I told them it awas a malfunction in the central nervious system. All a seizure is is an electrical impulse going off in the brain wrong. While I was saying this I had friends setting up 2 different sets of dominoes. One on one table all lined up close so one would fall intoi the next. THe other table another set was et up exactly the same. I said a seizure and my friend tapped the forat dominoe in that set and they watched them all fall down which stopped the chain reaction. I looked at the next set and Pam had her finger between the 4th and 5th dominoe where most people could not see it. I motioned to start the seizure and yes it did start. However the chain reaction stopped between the 4th and 5th dominoe. Which is when I said medications are created to stop the seizures before they start and others are made to stop the seizures once it has started. The peers then had to think some since they knew I could do everything they could. They also knew I could do some things thay coudn't. Like explain what I had and demonstrate what happens and results medications can have. Please if you see this and think it might help by all means use it Joe