When I was a little girl, I was ashamed of what I now know as epilepsy. I went undiagnosed for 20 years so as a child, the seizures I experienced were something I was terrified to show. They were simple partial so only I could really feel them but without a diagnosis, it felt as [...]

I can remember as far back as nursery school the feelings I would get when a seizure began to overtake me. I would feel scared & lost, ashamed that I was going to be a problem for everyone else. To make it worse, at the time no one (including myself) knew these episodes were seizures. [...]