Removed Epilepsy Jokes

Re: Removed Epilepsy Jokes

Submitted by smallsock on Sun, 2010-08-22 - 20:59

I don't have epilepsy, didn't read the jokes, and won't go looking for them.

 People who want to make fun of people with epilepsy and hurt people's feelings ought to remember that epilepsy and seizures can happen to anyone at any age, even if you have been healthy all your life.  A brain injury or tumor for instance, is all it takes.  Then they can see how they like being teased about waking up from a seizure having soiled themselves in public!  Some people!  They would be better off saying nothing!

Re: Removed Epilepsy Jokes

Submitted by mounen on Thu, 2012-10-25 - 18:56

well, I just joined and I have to say I'm relieved I didn't have to see that. I would have been quite upset. Epilepsy's hard enough to deal with as it is without people taking a pop at you about it.

I was extremely lucky at school, in that I was never teased about my epilepsy, but I lived with a dread of it happening at some stage. As an adult I feel a kind of deep gratitude to those chilldren who witnessed my fits but never used them as a weapon against me. 

http://my.epilepsy.com

Submitted by 3Hours2Live on Sun, 2014-03-23 - 20:54

http://my.epilepsy.com/discussion/975022 http://my.epilepsy.com/node/975022#comment-1059602 2013Dec15 Hi Steven Platti, Here's seeminly an epileptic joke question: "What do you call an epileptic with superhuman knowledge???" The answer: "Another One Possessed by Demons." The problem??? It's seemingly no joke: “genuine evidence of possession”: "'There are some things like speaking languages that the person does not know. That is one telltale sign. It also involves having unnatural strengths. Also having what the church would call having superhuman knowledge, which would include speaking languages, for example, dead languages that no one speaks anymore,' he said." http://tucsoncitizen.com/morgue/2007/07/31/58811-was-grandfather-really-doing-exorcism/ Now with me and my epilepsy, I'm officially "Too Smart To Be A Cop" with Beta Gamma Sigma level regarded Demons, and trying to get a job through State Rehabilitation programs has loopholes of ADA disabled meaning not otherwise qualified. Next problem is that the Justices of U. S. Supreme Court make jokes about thing like epilepsy, and won't listen above their own laughter. The lower levels regard epileptics as very ignorant sans their regarded Demons in possession. Even before I was labeled with epilepsy, being called "Brain Tumor", "Ape Boy", "Bloody Butt Boy", "Satanist", etc., might have helped for the future Street level, to Lustful Exorcisms for the Churches' and Jonestown welfare level, though doing little for dealing with Grand Inquisitors in the Courts, but for feeding them. Are "issue tissues" tax deductible for Oprah (at least during Dec 15, 2013)??? http://www.callahanonline.com/calarc4.htm Tadzio P.S.: Don't read his "Hate Mail from America" (though partly "cleansed" recently, again). ("One Sunday last April, John Callahan's comic, Callahan, was deemed so offensive that Miami Herald editors yanked it from the Sunday paper halfway through distribution, costing almost $50,000. (03/29/96) Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY")