#epileptic

[this-is-seizurism]

The goal of this account is to spread seizure awareness, education, ableism/discrimination of them.

Please feel free to send in asks regarding your experience with seizures and they will be responded to.

This account does take inspiration from those such as @this-is-ableism @thisisparamisia @this-is-audism and all the others that are out there.

Seizures can occur for many different reasons and this account does not discriminate on the reasoning

I’ll be adding links to my educational posts here as they are created.

What is a seizure

Seizure triggers

Seizure Diagnosis

[vampfire1]

sometimes i think people just don't. understand that i like answering (non invasive) questions about my disabilities/illnesses/disorders. like yeah girl go ask me how i do my makeup as someone with tics and spasms. go ask me how i do competitive gymnastics as someone with chronic illnesses (answer a lot of taking breaks). go ask me how my hypermobility impacts my day to day life. how chronic migraines and epilepsy impact me. about my mobility aids. my personality disorders. why i can sometimes eat gluten but usually can't. about juvenile arthritis. about my pots and my compression socks (which i have a large collection of). about my horrible anxiety. about my hypomanic and depressive episodes. about my sensory issues and autism in general.

so yeah you can ask me about my disorders. just be nice about it.

[jeffheadcannons]

OH PLEASE ALSO. i have not yet seen an epilepsy headcanon here uhm. perhaps an. epileptic. uhhh. poppy or gps. or uhh . apple :3

I cannot draw poppy again for the life of me I hope these two are okay as is :)

[felixwhiteee]

Not all seizures are epileptic, and not all non-epileptic seizures are PNES. Hope this helps!

[etherealeucharist]

Asking for prayers.

My next step in my seizure/epilepsy journey is to get a service dog.

At the moment I do not have the funds to get one and it will take me a while to gather those funds.

I do not have the time or resources to train one on my own so I plan to get one through an organization.

This is incredibly important to me. My medication has helped me, but hasn’t stopped them completely. I’m still having them.

My family and I are both worried every time I go out in public.

I’m able to work a job and contribute to society but these seizures can get in the way of it.

A service dog would help me so much. I’ll be able to gain an independence that I don’t currently have. A weight will be lifted off my shoulders. I won’t have to panic so much about being around others that have no idea how to help me in an emergency.

I’m starting a new semester of college in less than 2 weeks after having had to take a long break due to my seizures. I am incredibly excited but also terrified. So please pray for me that I have a successful semester.

[thatpollguy]

Have you ever had a seizure?

Yes, and I have epilepsy

Yes, and I have a condition that causes non-epileptic seizures (e.g. FND)

Yes, after suffering an injury or short-term illness

Yes, after using recreational or prescription drugs

Yes, although the doctors couldn't find out why

No, but I have a condition that causes seizure-like episodes (e.g. dystonia)

No, I have never had a seizure or seizure-like episode

Voting ended onDec 16, 2025

[spaceydelusions]

I'm so pissed off about my symptoms im making a PowerPoint about it

[transguyarchive]

"Don't Touch Me - I'm Electric TS Epileptic"

poem by Xanthra Phillippa, from Gendertrash From Hell 3 (Winter 1995). Available to read on the Digital Transgender Archive for free, pg 6.

(transcription below)

I found out that I'm not a real transsexual anymore even though I & everybody else thought I was

Because, according to some self styled experts from some Pure Ableist Middle Class TS Fantasy Land, epileptics aren't really true transsexuals; it's just the side-effect of all the anti-epileptic pills we have to take

Of course these experts have no neurological or neuro-pharmacological training to base their judgements on, just their own anti-epileptic prejudices

Obviously I must have been wrong when I thought that my epilepsy was a result of the stress of being a transsexual

I guess I better get rid of my neurologist because he never mentioned that what I thought was transsexuality was really just a psychological side-effect of the pills he prescribed me

Instead he only checked to see if the estrogen was having any effect at all on my seizure activity

So I guess I don't belong to the True Transsexual Community because the community for which I have been searching for all these years is one that would welcome me & others like me as we are without hesitation.