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6:02pm April 11, 2012

➸ Epilepsy: 1 in 26

sherlocksflataffect:

And unlike autism, it can kill you! Both on its own in supervilliany ways (the physiology of status epilepticus is really scary) and by the asshole who’s only had woefully inadequete Red Cross first aid training really fucking hurting you!

And intellectual disability affects 1-3% of people and they never call that an epidemic. That’s between 1 in 100 and 1 in 33. They were calling autism an epidemic when the recorded rate was much less than that.

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  1. pendere reblogged this from p--3a and added:
    This is a good simple basic one: http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/firstaid
  2. rightpropervillain reblogged this from uprootedandrunning
  3. p--3a reblogged this from goldenheartedrose and added:
    Outta interest (I’m Red Cross first aid trained); are there any websites with decent, reliable info that could tell me...
  4. uprootedandrunning reblogged this from tal9000 and added:
    Great commentary.
  5. trexhands reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  6. tal9000 reblogged this from lizardtitties and added:
    Reblogging this one instead for added commentary.
  7. sewerclown reblogged this from fivelettered and added:
    …unlike autism? :I)) It’s funny, I never considered epilepsy something to be “cured”…this is problematic on my part. I...
  8. fullyarticulatedgoldskeleton reblogged this from lizardtitties
  9. lizardtitties reblogged this from fromonesurvivortoanother and added:
    Anyone else remember when someone said that refusing to tag gifs was dangerous and kinda ableist and a ton of SJ folk...
  10. nameoffives reblogged this from fromonesurvivortoanother and added:
    Though I did actually see on one occasion a warning when I went to go see a musical at a nearby theatre. It said at the...
  11. bitchdere reblogged this from fromonesurvivortoanother
  12. fivelettered reblogged this from fromonesurvivortoanother
  13. fromonesurvivortoanother reblogged this from autistic-mom and added:
    it is absolutely staggering how little warning there is for flashing and other massive visual sensory things in public...
  14. autistic-mom reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  15. missdorotheabrooke reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    *performs psychological study on the psyches of autism advocates and the social forces of the disease/overbearing...
  16. bittergrapes reblogged this from goldenheartedrose and added:
    As an autistic and someone with a seizure disorder I would much prefer it if people focused on treating epilepsy and...