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Removed Epilepsy Jokes

Sun, 03/16/2008 - 10:04

Topic: Creative Corner

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 Colina on Sun, 2008-03-16 - 10:48

Thank you for removing that post Epi_help. I couldn't agree more and I think you said it all. :)

Re: Removed Epilepsy Jokes

Submitted by spiz on Sun, 2008-03-16 - 17:29

Thank you for removing the thread, Epi_help. Your reasoning is definitely food for thought and wonderfully put.

-Spiz

~ We all matter, even when we haven't the slightest clue why ~

Thank you for removing the thread, Epi_help. Your reasoning is definitely food for thought and wonderfully put.

-Spiz

~ We all matter, even when we haven't the slightest clue why ~

Re: Removed Epilepsy Jokes

Submitted by Wry on Sun, 2009-12-06 - 19:16

I'm confused Were the jokes actually removed? I was just looking at a post Called "Epilepsy jokes (Do not enter if you are easily offended)" I found it via google and I could read it fine, just couldn't reply. If this is the one you're talking about it hasn't actually been removed and can still be read. (you'll have heard the two jokes on there a thousand times though). However, doesn't the name say it all? Some people like to joke around and I think that it should be accomodated. If you look at a post called [enter any name here] (Do not enter if you are easily offended) and get offended really who is to blame? If you don't like scary movies would you rent something from the Horror section of the video store? We all have the right to our opinions and likes/dislikes. I personally feel that the disclaimer (Do not enter if you are easily offended) should be sufficient. p.s. if I hadn't looked at that page I wouldn't even know about this site!!

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