#DisabilityTwitter A 🧵about an epilepsy memory: This girl I went to school with, who was also in some of my special ed classes didn't believe at that I have epilepsy. For some reason, it annoyed her that I was reading a lot on MY own chronic condition. 1/?
We were friends, but I was about to dump her by this point in the school year because she was ANNOYING. One day, she had enough, and just mocked me relentlessly about being epileptic. 2/?
Then she wrote 'Mary had a seizure' on my pencil bag. But she couldn't spell, so it said 'caeser' instead. It was SUPPOSED to be a mean taunt about the subject of seizures following me everywhere. But it lost its effect because she wrote the wrong word. 3/?
Needless to say, I was really upset. She thought it was funny. AND she didn't see what the big deal was. It took some time because she was a stage 4 clinger, but she eventually got the message I didn't want to know her anymore. 4/?
Moral of the story: If someone in your life is epileptic, don't be a fucking jerk about it. They will find out. And remember you. 5/done
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