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» eisforepilepsy - Really Poorly researched

In response to Poorly researched posted by Peaches3rn:
Sylvia McGrath,
Nice try...but you are doing harm to a lot of folks around the world by writing such a badly researched piece on a disorder that is complicated and deadly and has such a very high stigmatazation level. You really should know better than to try to pass off something so light-weight as writing.
Hundreds of folks die each year from E. and millions more of us suffer from the ignorance of fools. Many people still believe that demons cause epilepsy, that the only seizure is the convulsive kind or that people only seize to get attention. Even more people believe that epilepsy is contagious, that exorcism is the cure for it, and that people with epilepsy are violent killers.
None of these things are true, but then neither is your blythe comment that epilepsy is not a disorder at all but only a symptom...
Do us all a favor and write about something else---please!
Cordially,
Paula
E. is for Epilepsy by Paula Apodaca
www.epilepsy-paula.blogspot.com

-- posted by eisforepilepsy