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You can do anything
Sat, 02/17/2018 - 19:37Topic: Share Your Story
I am a 50 year old CPA with 2 kids who has had epilepsy since age 7.
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I don't know how to read
Submitted by birdman on Sun, 2018-02-18 - 15:35
I don't know how to read between the lines; maybe my temporal lobe epilepsy has effected me that way too.
I met my university
Submitted by Tadzio on Sun, 2018-02-18 - 18:46
I met my university requirements as an outstanding scholar with the university classes for a CPA, I also got the highest score for the entire state on a federal exam for an accounting position with a federal agency, and I was told that my epilepsy was a disqualification for such as, and getting the required work experience for, being a CPA. Ten years later, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected my request for writ of certiorari to overturn the CPA denial and associated job denials based on epilepsy.Epilepsy certainly often limits much of most everything and anything in society, and an overly optimistic denial of such may lead to unnecessarily exacerbated disappointment.
Tell us more; what kind of
Submitted by birdman on Sat, 2018-02-17 - 21:05
Tell us more; what kind of seizures, do treatments work, challenges you face. I hope this forum and/ or the Epilepsy Foundation can help you.