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I’m actually going to reblog a thing just because this is really important.

As someone who has epilepsy and used to have several grand mal seizures a day, I’d also like to add that “offer help” can range anywhere from keeping the person calm to explaining to them where they are and what they were doing to even just telling them they should sit and rest for a while longer (lack or coordination is common, and it can be hard to walk straight or see clearly).

It’s okay for them to take up to a half hour to fully regain their bearings and sort out what they were doing prior to the seizure. Just answer any questions calmly and be there for support.

If they come around and you start to panic or shake them or ask them what the heck is wrong with them they are going to freak out and panic too.

I cannot stress it enough that this is bad.

If someone has a seizure and they come out of it, please. please stay calm. They are likely disoriented and confused, even if it’s only for a minute or two, and you don’t want them panicking on top of that because they can have another seizure as a result.

IMPORTANT

IMPORTANT because last year a kid in my class had a seizure, none of us even knew he was at risk for them either so just cause you don’t think you know anyone doesn’t mean you don’t 

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I have to stress how important it is to time a seizure. If it lasts more than a few minutes, call an ambulance.

DO NOT CALL THE POLICE. I’m dead fucking serious. I had a grand mal in public once and the POLICE were called and imagine coming out of the seizure, feeling like you got smacked in the head with a sack full of bricks, confused, dazed, in desperate need of some sugar to boost low blood pressure and some DIPSHIT has called the police and I was being threatened with being ‘drunk and disorderly’. It took a phone call to my doctors office to get them to back off. The police cannot properly deal with sick people. 

Offer help can be:

Why you shouldn’t put anything in someone’s mouth: they will choke. Yes, they may bite their tongue but I can assure you it’s less traumatic than cracking your jaw on someone’s greasy wallet or choking on a spoon.

DO NOT HOLD ANYONE DOWN. Example: someone pinned my right shoulder mid-seizure a few years back and how I have a permanently displaced and clicking shoulder. Let the person flail around, those muscles are out of control and restraining them does cause more damage to the patient and you.

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Shapeshifting would be an incredible superpower, don’t get me wrong, but—

Okay. I read a chapter of a horror manga where a guy gets shapeshifting powers, gets depressed and shapeshifts into a giant sea anemone. And because anemones and other cnidarians don’t have brains, he can’t even have the thought to turn back into a human, so he’s just fucking softlocked as a giant sea anemone.

And because I read that chapter of that horror manga, if I did wind up getting shapeshifting powers I would be shitting myself with fear every day that I would accidentally turn into a giant sea anemone. It would be the number one thing on my mind, immediately followed by “WAIT if I think about the guy who turned into a giant sea anemone too much would that be enough to accidentally turn myself into a giant sea anemone,” so then I would spend every day trying not to think about the guy who turned into a giant sea anemone, which is like trying not to think about elephants.

And then I would absolutely turn into a giant sea anemone, which at that point would come as a relief

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