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General Question
Mon, 03/28/2016 - 04:48Topic: Epilepsy.com Help
I understand that clearly a lot of people use the internet who also have epilepsy (I don't have it just have a question). I am aware that some images/videos can trigger seizures and there are potentially a ton of them in the internet. My question is that if you were to happen to be on a website and one of these images/videos randomly triggered an episode would you be irrationally upset about it? As in would you blame the website for posting these images without a warning? Is there a general warning system that you can potentially get for a browser. Such as some kind of browser plugin or something that prevents GIFs or video files from automatically playing? Are there just certain sites you know to stay away from? I guess what I'm wondering is how upset you get, when by random happenstance something triggers a seizure. Do you get angry and yell at everyone on that website for not predicting you have epilepsy or do you realize it's the internet and there's no way for everyone to know about your condition?
Comments
You seem to have the outdated
Submitted by margiefox118@live.com on Mon, 2016-04-04 - 07:45
You seem to have the outdated conception of epilepsy being a psychological disorder causing irrational behavior. Epilepsy is, simply put, a condition due to a physical problem of the brain functions, not of the mind. Would you get overly upset at a food you ate that caused heartburn? Anyone who has the type of epilepsy triggered by light knows what to avoid. There are people with'without epilepsy who may get angry at websites because of their personality. This is a product of individual thought/mind not a physical one such as epilepsy.
Photosensitive seizures are
Submitted by just_joe on Mon, 2016-03-28 - 14:51
Photosensitive seizures are what you are talking about. There are some people that are just that. It is not the web site itself. Some people have seizures that are triggered by the change in the light. Which could be a leaf being blown by the wind and the sun shining thru. Others it could be a video game. There are glasses that can be worn to help them with their seizures being triggered.If a person has a heart attack while on a web site does he gripe about the web site causing his heart attack? I know it is hard to understand but yes we do have limitations and need to watch them just as people who wear glasses or use hearing aids and other people with ailments.People with epilepsy are no different then you are. Each person is different and not all seizures are the same. Some people can have one while talking to you and you would not know about the seizure. Others may look like they are daydreaming but those might be absence or partial or even focal seizures. Another person may have a muscle twitch now and then. Then there are those that have Grand Mal seizures (today they are tonic-clonic). I have used computers since I went to work in the late 70's. Back then computers were used but there was no internet. I built web pages. If you want to know more about the different types of seizures then you are on the site that has the information. I hope this helpsJoe