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not sure how to tell my spouse I have sezuires!
Mon, 09/07/2015 - 21:26I have a new person in my life,he treat me good, but I never told him I had sezuires. I have small partails, not really noticable unless you really looking at me. and when he did I pretend it was because of the heat. I am scared I'll be treated diffrenly if i told him or he maynot want to be with me. I am the same person with or without them. but not everybody treat people with disability's good. do anybody have any thoughts?
Wondering what you will tell
Submitted by just_joe on Wed, 2015-09-09 - 18:15
Wondering what you will tell him when you have a seizure while in a heated lip lock.While I am a male I do know what you are going thru. But I decided to inform my GF's about my epilepsy. Back then I had focal seizures and generalized focal seizures. Focal seizures today might be considered simple partial. Which most of my seizures are even today. But back then if my arm started rising and got shoulder high boom I was in a convulsion. In that seizure I saw, heard and knew what was going on. So I talked to the girls I wanted. If they didn't accept me like I was then it was their problem I went out looking and taking to those that would accept me as I was.Understand you are no different then any other person. Now answer this. Would you be telling him if you had glasses, a hearing aid, used a wheelchair, or another disability. Epilepsy is a blind disability. It's there you just can't see it. Like a heart ailment. Or diabetes. Whuold you have told him of those. I can tell you you probably would have. Epilepsy is no different.I do hope this is taken the way I intended it being takenJoe