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1. It is time for the #epilepsy community to get mad, to organize, the fight back. We remain the second-most stigmatized people with a disease. (Mental illness is first.) Even with control, we have three times the average unemployment rate. We are driven from schools, we lose...
2...our friends, we are called cruel nicknames. We are afraid to reveal our disease because we know it can easily result in termination or expulsion - "for our own good." The head of HR-Disability for a major corporation told me largest numbers of calls from managers.....
3...about people with disabilities is that they have discovered someone they hired has epilepsy, and asking if they can be fired or at least moved to where customers won't see them. And then...and then there is Hollywood, that thinks we're funny or worth ignoring, as if....
