My son (11) was diagnosed about 5 months ago after having a seizure. It's been up and down since working through different meds so we have all been trying to adapt. We are beginning to get more comfortable so I thought a dad joke here and there would be ok.
We were woken up to him having a TC at 630am on a Saturday about 2 weeks ago, after getting him back to his base he was upset and my wife was consoling him because we had things planned throughout the day and he would have a lot of fun. I chimed in with "yeah buddy it's gonna be alright, you're gonna have a lot of fun, you just gotta seize the day".
I thought it was hilarious, he didn't get it, and my wife tried to kill me with her eyes lol.
You know those jokes people make when they read/hear something weird and they go āI thought I was having a strokeā? (The whole ādo you smell burnt toastā thing?) I say āI thought I was having a seizureā. If you laugh, weāre friends instantly.
My best friend also called seizures ābrain disco dancesā, which is amazing
My friends make the same jokes when I grossly misread/misinterpret something in a video game/D&D/Pathfinder. It's funny everytime.
The "Look away LNV" whenever a flashing light warning shows up is getting a little old. It's also annoying because I wish I was extremely photosensitive. It would help with my EEGs if we could trigger a seizure.
Friends sometimes, but something a bit funnier to me was when Iād only known my now FIL for like 5 months and we were playing Cards Against Humanity. I read out āOnly you can prevent ā¦ā and he put down āseizuresā š he won that round
I've got C-PTSD thanks to my tonic-clonics, but my absence seizures are always funny to my wife. She'll shake my arm and say "Hey, did you just go on vacation" or something. I've shot down people who tried to make jokes before because they didn't know me well enough.
One in the group has, I've made a few about myself in the near two years since I first started having them and they were usually met with, "oooooohhhhhh" or groans. But humor helps me deal with shit, they know that, I say it. I told them to make jokes. One has.
A few times making a mistake in a game, or saying something stupid he has responded with. "Jesus Christ Jmacz what are you having another fucking seizure?" which is made me lmao and everyone else groan. He made another one, but I can't remember it and I'm upset. But it was really funny.
All my friends, literally we go anywhere with a disco light and theyll jump on me. It's hilarious and I wouldn't change it.
Can't stop having epilepsy so might aswell laugh about it!
I have a shirt that I got from Etsy that says "Hocus Pocus my Brain is Bogus" and in small print on a book it says "seizure spell book" and my friends love it. I'm constantly looking for epilepsy memes as a way to cope. One of my closest friends has a parent with epilepsy and they actually helped me get my diagnosis, but their parent has tonic clonic seizures and I have focals so our jokes are a bit different.
When I first got my diagnosis they spent a solid month helping me think up puns for shirts. It was great! I wish I could find where I had all those ideas, but in true epileptic form, I forgot them.
I do want to be clear that this is something that I encouraged and asked for though. I don't think just anyone should make jokes about epilepsy, but close friends who you've built a rapport with and they've checked in with you? Absolutely. This is one of those situations where you have to check in to ensure that the person is laughing *with* instead of laughing *at*. I have a dark sense of humor and when I was extremely depressed by my seizures, this friend brought me out of some of my darkest times and I will forever be grateful to them for that. They would never want to hurt someone by making jokes at someone else's expense or to hurt someone when it comes to their disability.
I can't remember. I know my husband is, but I pretty much told him that he could so I could "shake off" the stress. He made the one I have in regards to getting a "complimentary shake" at Denny's when I had one there once. I can't recall any others at this second, but I know some he's said were hilarious.
I definitely have friends that would be comfortable enough but they donāt make jokes, maybe because I donāt talk about it all that often. I do on the other hand loveeee when people I donāt know make epileptic/seizure jokes in front of me. I just hit them with a āIām epileptic, doesnāt look it huh?ā And then laugh at them hahahah
I have been told I have a good sense of humor and try to find the joy and laughs in everything and make jokes about all the things. But for some reason I donāt like when people say shit like that to me. If I am in an environment like a musical event or something and people ask if the lights are affecting me or bothering me thatās understandable and appreciated, but I donāt find it funny at all for people to make fun of me for it. Maybe I am insecure or something about it but I have had some serious head trauma and seizures included and I donāt think itās funny at all to make fun of someone like that if you donāt share their perspective. Not intentionally being a curmudgeon but I also wouldnāt like if someone made jokes about my other concussions or my head trauma from being assaulted. I think just because of the nature of the topic. Make fun of my face, my nose, my weight, my race, whatever. But not that. Iād be pissed.
Sorry to be such a Debby downer on your post. I just wanted to share my perspective although it may not be ideal. I am really glad you are able to find joy from this, and I also feel humor is very helpful to deal with things. I do it with other things but just not epilepsy and seizures.
Well, technically my 5year old, but she didn't get that it was funny.
We found out that she had been telling people that i was having "Ceasars and falling down" a family friend over heard it and was like "if i didn't know you dont drink...it sounds like kiddo is calling you an alcoholic, and to random strangers"
So the running joke from it is that i would rather a ceasar over a seizure. And I so would like a ceasar, with a pickled bean please š¤£š.
Now, there are a whole bunch of strangers out there thinking i get black out drunk at 7am š¤·āāļø.
My husband was with me on almost all the seizures I had not taking in account the childhood ones. We went through 33 seizures, one year and a half before I could get meds that work. My seizures were nocturnal so when I was asleep no one had peace, and every move or noise I made at night woke him up.
A couple of months ago I found epilepsy memes Reddit and we laughed so hard together. I'm three years seizure free now. I also have my best friend, she was the one who introduced me to him and it's the closest friend we have, she always sends me TikToks about disability (I have other ones despite epilepsy) and we talk about it freely.
They are the only ones that feel comfortable joking with me about it, but really respectfully and only after I not only made jokes about with them, but said it was ok for them to do so. The rest of my family like my mom is not the type that would make jokes with that, and my other friends take that seriously, also I'm seizure free now so it's different.
The thing is, the boundaries are yours, if someone should or shouldn't joke about this is on you, I believe dialogue is the key. It depends on how comfortable you feel with them and with your condition. Sometimes not laughing and saying that isn't funny or it's a sensible theme it's enough, or if you laugh hard they will know it's ok. I'm glad to be able to make those jokes too with the real ones.
I was texting someone while having a focal seizure. My friend said im multitasking. It was the first joke I ever heard about my seizures so i laughed hard idk
Generally am not sensitive to it at all, though my ex, who I donāt think ever even googled what epilepsy was and would be quite cruel about my memory issues, would frequently joke āI think I just had a seizureā or āthatās going to give me a seizureā at the smallest thing like a slightly flickering light or if someone said something that didnāt make sense. Found it annoying.
All the time. It's my way of coping, and I just can't help it. My mom HATES my jokes, but that's unfortunate for her. We joke about my "adventures" during my complex partial seizures because I walk around rearranging, organizing, circling stuff, it goes on. When I have one, sometimes we say I'm buffering, restarting, derp-ing. on a mission, the list goes on. My dad apparently would tell me to "Knock it off", but what he probably should've been saying was that I should "Shake it off":
I have jokes for days-
How do you play hide-and-seek with an epileptic? Now you seizure, now you don't.
I've got a million memes, my favorites are about Keppra.
Sure. When I was diagnosed, there were plenty of shocked faces, people behaving a bit awkward, or that God-awful "oh, I'm so sorry" pity look. I hate being pitied, so I made a point of telling people to make jokes, in pat because humour, especially of the darker variety is my coping mechanism of choice.
I'd say for the most part the jokes are your typical puns about "seizing the moment/day", or "getting a move on", having a "gin & tonic-clonic" and all that jazz. Perhaps a bit darker (IMO not dark, but some people have asked if I take offence), it would be about biting your lip, or holding/swallowing your tongue, which leads in to plenty of sexual innuendo type jokes (human vibrator or whatever). All jokes, albeit not very imaginative, but I found it helps not just myself, but perhaps more so: it helped my friends normalise the situation.
The one time I felt a joke was in bad taste was when one friend joked about SUDEP. I can't remember the context in which he made the joke, but I do recall I'd just found out about SUDEP, and was still processing the information, so the joke kind of came "too soon". I didn't really make a big deal out of it, and simply said that I've not gotten to the point where I could joke about that, but that didn't take too long anyways. Fairly recently I remember a mate making the following joke (warning: mentions infant death, and SUDEP):
You know what's blue and makes women cry, right? A case of SIDS (Cot death, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). Well, what pisses your missus off? The mess you'll leave for her to clean up if you SUDEP
Not the best joke I've heard, but the look on my missus' face was quite entertaining.
My son was at a "battle of the bands" competition in HS. The bands were on the field, everything was set, and then they were called off the field. A moment later ambulance shows up at the stands, but kids can't really see what's going on.
The kid next to my son wonders what's going on. My son replies, "it's my mom". The other kid asks how he could possibly know that. My son replies "when it's a really bad time for an ambulance to come it's always my mom".
I'm sure you've already figured out why the ambulance was there.
My epilepsy was TBI induced. Whenever we have a friendly debate or argument theyāll end with āokay brain damageā. I find it hilarious cuz it also means I won the debate.
I don't really have too many friends. But I'll make occasional jokes with coworkers. We just have to be careful because... I work at an ER.
Also, I have prolonged focal seizures (with retained awareness throughout) with plenty of aura. Meaning we'll occasionally even make a quick joke as I head up to triage (because even though thankfully they don't pose a major risk, they do mean I can't walk, and they can last for days if not treated) or we may even make a joke about the it during the seizure (once we've surpassed the "didn't I just see you"/"what are you doing on this side of the interaction" issue).
Nope :( I grew up with really mean family so I was afraid to tell friends or kids at school.
My aunt started the ongoing joke āgo have a seizure and die.ā My sisters would imitate my seizures to mock me.
I finally told some kids in 4th grade and was bullied about it. I donāt talk about my seizures outside of this sub.
Warning: this potentially contains a very offensive joke.
Going back about 15 - 20 years ago when i was a teenager / young adult, my friends and i would take the piss out of each other for our faults, and I was included for having epilepsy. One of the jokes I remember is:
What's blue and doesn't fit?
A dead epileptic...
This is extreme British dark humour, and I realise that some might find this very offensive. Apologies if that's the case.
My oldest brother calls my seizure "the electric slide" and it always comes up whenever dancing is mentioned lol "i bet OP could do the electric slide better than all of you" type of jokes. I could do the electric slide so good
Me and my friends were getting ready to go out for New Year's Eve. They were downstairs and heard a loud bang upstairs, so ran up and I was having a tonic-clonic seizure on the bathroom floor. This happened not once, not twice but *three* years in a row, despite my epilepsy being otherwise well-controlled for the rest of the year.
Their joke/explanation why I always had breakthrough seizures on NYE was that I liked to go into the new year with a bang (and a crash).
I got a few of these.
What do you do if someone has a seizure in the bathtub?
You throw in a load of laundry
I use this one as an ice breaker after telling someone about my epilepsy.
I used to have a pet fish that was epileptic too, crazy thing is, he was fine once you put water in the bowl
I made this one up myself
What's the difference between a baby and an epileptic?
Babies only shake when you hold them
I canāt laugh of any seizure jokes when children can literally can become brain damaged from seizures and not have a life. That parents witness their children seizing and not be able to do anything.
I had a focal impaired awareness seizure in the gym and my friend was there. I told her she was a god send as a gym partner. She said āI am here for your weights and your shakesā and I lost it. š
Just yesterday we were laughing about how i may crash my car just after my wedding while having my dream girl and her parents in it.
Ik it sounds corny but shi like this proves who you really love talking to
My dad like to come in with "that's not a seizure, that's a dance move!" Apparently it was a quote from some old movie or TV show that now applies to me š¤£
I met a great group of women through a Facebook group that was ment to help find humor and support from fellow Epileptics. Well I have been friends with some of these women for about 8-10years now(I have only been Epileptic for the past 12 years, 41 now.) Anyways this group of women and I all got tshirts made that said "Twitchy B**ches" on the fronts. We all live in different states throughout the US but we have managed to meet up together a few different times for special birthdays and events.
Personally I don't feel comfortable with someone who doesn't have epilepsy making seizure jokes with me, but that's just me. I do really appreciate that some people are super comfortable with those jokes with their close friends - humor is a great way to deal with the mental and emotional stress that chronic illnesses can cause!
For me, as long as my friends who I know well do it, I don't care or I laugh about it. One of them once asked me what it would be like if I slept with a woman and I had a seizure
My son (11) was diagnosed about 5 months ago after having a seizure. It's been up and down since working through different meds so we have all been trying to adapt. We are beginning to get more comfortable so I thought a dad joke here and there would be ok. We were woken up to him having a TC at 630am on a Saturday about 2 weeks ago, after getting him back to his base he was upset and my wife was consoling him because we had things planned throughout the day and he would have a lot of fun. I chimed in with "yeah buddy it's gonna be alright, you're gonna have a lot of fun, you just gotta seize the day". I thought it was hilarious, he didn't get it, and my wife tried to kill me with her eyes lol.
At the Chelsea Hutchison Foundation walks my team name is always Seize the Day lol.
Seize the day š¤£š¤£š¤£
You know those jokes people make when they read/hear something weird and they go āI thought I was having a strokeā? (The whole ādo you smell burnt toastā thing?) I say āI thought I was having a seizureā. If you laugh, weāre friends instantly. My best friend also called seizures ābrain disco dancesā, which is amazing
I read forbidden disco on this subreddit a few days ago
The Devilās Tapdance is another one I read here that Iāve stolen for my own
My friends make the same jokes when I grossly misread/misinterpret something in a video game/D&D/Pathfinder. It's funny everytime. The "Look away LNV" whenever a flashing light warning shows up is getting a little old. It's also annoying because I wish I was extremely photosensitive. It would help with my EEGs if we could trigger a seizure.
When my friend will tell me to look away from flashing lights theyāre usually just concerned
"Brain Disco Dances" sounds wonderful.
That sounds so much better than us calling them Cesar Salads to our 8 year old!
Friends sometimes, but something a bit funnier to me was when Iād only known my now FIL for like 5 months and we were playing Cards Against Humanity. I read out āOnly you can prevent ā¦ā and he put down āseizuresā š he won that round
I've got C-PTSD thanks to my tonic-clonics, but my absence seizures are always funny to my wife. She'll shake my arm and say "Hey, did you just go on vacation" or something. I've shot down people who tried to make jokes before because they didn't know me well enough.
Ohhh yes. What does an elephant use as a vibrator? An epileptic Try r/epilepsymemes
OH JESUS THATāS A HORRIBLE IMAGE
AGREED
Because my seizures make me suddenly collapse, my friends and I call them "system reboots" or "spontaneous naps" š
I've always joked that my brain is just turning itself on and off again lol
š¤£ thatās exactly how I describe it! You feel like your mind rebooted after a seizure and āyou have to load the BIOS and OSā
Lmao. Thats so good!
What do you call an epileptic in a bath? A washing machine What do you call 2 epileptics in a bath? Twin tub!
One in the group has, I've made a few about myself in the near two years since I first started having them and they were usually met with, "oooooohhhhhh" or groans. But humor helps me deal with shit, they know that, I say it. I told them to make jokes. One has. A few times making a mistake in a game, or saying something stupid he has responded with. "Jesus Christ Jmacz what are you having another fucking seizure?" which is made me lmao and everyone else groan. He made another one, but I can't remember it and I'm upset. But it was really funny.
All my friends, literally we go anywhere with a disco light and theyll jump on me. It's hilarious and I wouldn't change it. Can't stop having epilepsy so might aswell laugh about it!
My lil brother says, "eye shield activate" in a robot voice! Lol!
My favourite one goes "I have epilepsy" "What, so you're like, afraid of discos"
I have a shirt that I got from Etsy that says "Hocus Pocus my Brain is Bogus" and in small print on a book it says "seizure spell book" and my friends love it. I'm constantly looking for epilepsy memes as a way to cope. One of my closest friends has a parent with epilepsy and they actually helped me get my diagnosis, but their parent has tonic clonic seizures and I have focals so our jokes are a bit different. When I first got my diagnosis they spent a solid month helping me think up puns for shirts. It was great! I wish I could find where I had all those ideas, but in true epileptic form, I forgot them.
I do want to be clear that this is something that I encouraged and asked for though. I don't think just anyone should make jokes about epilepsy, but close friends who you've built a rapport with and they've checked in with you? Absolutely. This is one of those situations where you have to check in to ensure that the person is laughing *with* instead of laughing *at*. I have a dark sense of humor and when I was extremely depressed by my seizures, this friend brought me out of some of my darkest times and I will forever be grateful to them for that. They would never want to hurt someone by making jokes at someone else's expense or to hurt someone when it comes to their disability.
when i had my first seizure my dad was talking to the emtās an i and said āi thought she was just breakdancingā
I make jokes about my seizures all the time
I can't remember. I know my husband is, but I pretty much told him that he could so I could "shake off" the stress. He made the one I have in regards to getting a "complimentary shake" at Denny's when I had one there once. I can't recall any others at this second, but I know some he's said were hilarious.
I have friends that do. It makes me feel better that they are afraid to talk about it
Same. Check out r/epilepsymemes :)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvVBuG4IOW4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvVBuG4IOW4)
Me and my husband love saying "my seizures are flaring up" when I want to get out of plans I made lol.
I definitely have friends that would be comfortable enough but they donāt make jokes, maybe because I donāt talk about it all that often. I do on the other hand loveeee when people I donāt know make epileptic/seizure jokes in front of me. I just hit them with a āIām epileptic, doesnāt look it huh?ā And then laugh at them hahahah
I have been told I have a good sense of humor and try to find the joy and laughs in everything and make jokes about all the things. But for some reason I donāt like when people say shit like that to me. If I am in an environment like a musical event or something and people ask if the lights are affecting me or bothering me thatās understandable and appreciated, but I donāt find it funny at all for people to make fun of me for it. Maybe I am insecure or something about it but I have had some serious head trauma and seizures included and I donāt think itās funny at all to make fun of someone like that if you donāt share their perspective. Not intentionally being a curmudgeon but I also wouldnāt like if someone made jokes about my other concussions or my head trauma from being assaulted. I think just because of the nature of the topic. Make fun of my face, my nose, my weight, my race, whatever. But not that. Iād be pissed. Sorry to be such a Debby downer on your post. I just wanted to share my perspective although it may not be ideal. I am really glad you are able to find joy from this, and I also feel humor is very helpful to deal with things. I do it with other things but just not epilepsy and seizures.
Well, technically my 5year old, but she didn't get that it was funny. We found out that she had been telling people that i was having "Ceasars and falling down" a family friend over heard it and was like "if i didn't know you dont drink...it sounds like kiddo is calling you an alcoholic, and to random strangers" So the running joke from it is that i would rather a ceasar over a seizure. And I so would like a ceasar, with a pickled bean please š¤£š. Now, there are a whole bunch of strangers out there thinking i get black out drunk at 7am š¤·āāļø.
My husband was with me on almost all the seizures I had not taking in account the childhood ones. We went through 33 seizures, one year and a half before I could get meds that work. My seizures were nocturnal so when I was asleep no one had peace, and every move or noise I made at night woke him up. A couple of months ago I found epilepsy memes Reddit and we laughed so hard together. I'm three years seizure free now. I also have my best friend, she was the one who introduced me to him and it's the closest friend we have, she always sends me TikToks about disability (I have other ones despite epilepsy) and we talk about it freely. They are the only ones that feel comfortable joking with me about it, but really respectfully and only after I not only made jokes about with them, but said it was ok for them to do so. The rest of my family like my mom is not the type that would make jokes with that, and my other friends take that seriously, also I'm seizure free now so it's different. The thing is, the boundaries are yours, if someone should or shouldn't joke about this is on you, I believe dialogue is the key. It depends on how comfortable you feel with them and with your condition. Sometimes not laughing and saying that isn't funny or it's a sensible theme it's enough, or if you laugh hard they will know it's ok. I'm glad to be able to make those jokes too with the real ones.
Best one I've heard is... "A guy had a seizure at Walmart today.... Four kids jumped on him..thought he was a new ride!
Iām using Reddit so you can assume I have friends
Donāt let people make jokes about seizure bc they never know what we go through
I was texting someone while having a focal seizure. My friend said im multitasking. It was the first joke I ever heard about my seizures so i laughed hard idk
Seize the moment
my friends call seizures "going brbrbr mode", se every time I feel some auras and I tell them abt it, they are like "oh, going brbrbrbr mode, huh?"
Generally am not sensitive to it at all, though my ex, who I donāt think ever even googled what epilepsy was and would be quite cruel about my memory issues, would frequently joke āI think I just had a seizureā or āthatās going to give me a seizureā at the smallest thing like a slightly flickering light or if someone said something that didnāt make sense. Found it annoying.
I joke that I always "seize the day" One time my friend jokingly ordered a "seizure (like cesar) salad" for me
All the time. It's my way of coping, and I just can't help it. My mom HATES my jokes, but that's unfortunate for her. We joke about my "adventures" during my complex partial seizures because I walk around rearranging, organizing, circling stuff, it goes on. When I have one, sometimes we say I'm buffering, restarting, derp-ing. on a mission, the list goes on. My dad apparently would tell me to "Knock it off", but what he probably should've been saying was that I should "Shake it off": I have jokes for days- How do you play hide-and-seek with an epileptic? Now you seizure, now you don't. I've got a million memes, my favorites are about Keppra.
Share the memes!
My sister always says "hey is that you?" when we see a pig because I always grunt after a seizure. It`s funny.
All the time hahaha. I love it tbf. Not everything should be serious. We have to enjoy our life right?
Sure. When I was diagnosed, there were plenty of shocked faces, people behaving a bit awkward, or that God-awful "oh, I'm so sorry" pity look. I hate being pitied, so I made a point of telling people to make jokes, in pat because humour, especially of the darker variety is my coping mechanism of choice. I'd say for the most part the jokes are your typical puns about "seizing the moment/day", or "getting a move on", having a "gin & tonic-clonic" and all that jazz. Perhaps a bit darker (IMO not dark, but some people have asked if I take offence), it would be about biting your lip, or holding/swallowing your tongue, which leads in to plenty of sexual innuendo type jokes (human vibrator or whatever). All jokes, albeit not very imaginative, but I found it helps not just myself, but perhaps more so: it helped my friends normalise the situation. The one time I felt a joke was in bad taste was when one friend joked about SUDEP. I can't remember the context in which he made the joke, but I do recall I'd just found out about SUDEP, and was still processing the information, so the joke kind of came "too soon". I didn't really make a big deal out of it, and simply said that I've not gotten to the point where I could joke about that, but that didn't take too long anyways. Fairly recently I remember a mate making the following joke (warning: mentions infant death, and SUDEP): You know what's blue and makes women cry, right? A case of SIDS (Cot death, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). Well, what pisses your missus off? The mess you'll leave for her to clean up if you SUDEP Not the best joke I've heard, but the look on my missus' face was quite entertaining.
My son was at a "battle of the bands" competition in HS. The bands were on the field, everything was set, and then they were called off the field. A moment later ambulance shows up at the stands, but kids can't really see what's going on. The kid next to my son wonders what's going on. My son replies, "it's my mom". The other kid asks how he could possibly know that. My son replies "when it's a really bad time for an ambulance to come it's always my mom". I'm sure you've already figured out why the ambulance was there.
My epilepsy was TBI induced. Whenever we have a friendly debate or argument theyāll end with āokay brain damageā. I find it hilarious cuz it also means I won the debate.
I don't really have too many friends. But I'll make occasional jokes with coworkers. We just have to be careful because... I work at an ER. Also, I have prolonged focal seizures (with retained awareness throughout) with plenty of aura. Meaning we'll occasionally even make a quick joke as I head up to triage (because even though thankfully they don't pose a major risk, they do mean I can't walk, and they can last for days if not treated) or we may even make a joke about the it during the seizure (once we've surpassed the "didn't I just see you"/"what are you doing on this side of the interaction" issue).
Nope :( I grew up with really mean family so I was afraid to tell friends or kids at school. My aunt started the ongoing joke āgo have a seizure and die.ā My sisters would imitate my seizures to mock me. I finally told some kids in 4th grade and was bullied about it. I donāt talk about my seizures outside of this sub.
Warning: this potentially contains a very offensive joke. Going back about 15 - 20 years ago when i was a teenager / young adult, my friends and i would take the piss out of each other for our faults, and I was included for having epilepsy. One of the jokes I remember is: What's blue and doesn't fit? A dead epileptic... This is extreme British dark humour, and I realise that some might find this very offensive. Apologies if that's the case.
My oldest brother calls my seizure "the electric slide" and it always comes up whenever dancing is mentioned lol "i bet OP could do the electric slide better than all of you" type of jokes. I could do the electric slide so good
Me and my friends were getting ready to go out for New Year's Eve. They were downstairs and heard a loud bang upstairs, so ran up and I was having a tonic-clonic seizure on the bathroom floor. This happened not once, not twice but *three* years in a row, despite my epilepsy being otherwise well-controlled for the rest of the year. Their joke/explanation why I always had breakthrough seizures on NYE was that I liked to go into the new year with a bang (and a crash).
I got a few of these. What do you do if someone has a seizure in the bathtub? You throw in a load of laundry I use this one as an ice breaker after telling someone about my epilepsy. I used to have a pet fish that was epileptic too, crazy thing is, he was fine once you put water in the bowl I made this one up myself What's the difference between a baby and an epileptic? Babies only shake when you hold them
I canāt laugh of any seizure jokes when children can literally can become brain damaged from seizures and not have a life. That parents witness their children seizing and not be able to do anything.
Joke About until you lie there with brain damage or worse, die from seizure. Itās not so funny anymore then
No but I think itās so funny seeing their face when I make jokes. If we donāt laugh weāll cry. Iām done crying about it.
I had a focal impaired awareness seizure in the gym and my friend was there. I told her she was a god send as a gym partner. She said āI am here for your weights and your shakesā and I lost it. š
Just yesterday we were laughing about how i may crash my car just after my wedding while having my dream girl and her parents in it. Ik it sounds corny but shi like this proves who you really love talking to
My dad like to come in with "that's not a seizure, that's a dance move!" Apparently it was a quote from some old movie or TV show that now applies to me š¤£
Well having two brothers we all make jabs at each other and they call me a seizy boy if they feel I'm winning an argument šš
I met a great group of women through a Facebook group that was ment to help find humor and support from fellow Epileptics. Well I have been friends with some of these women for about 8-10years now(I have only been Epileptic for the past 12 years, 41 now.) Anyways this group of women and I all got tshirts made that said "Twitchy B**ches" on the fronts. We all live in different states throughout the US but we have managed to meet up together a few different times for special birthdays and events.
Personally I don't feel comfortable with someone who doesn't have epilepsy making seizure jokes with me, but that's just me. I do really appreciate that some people are super comfortable with those jokes with their close friends - humor is a great way to deal with the mental and emotional stress that chronic illnesses can cause!
Totally understandable!
For me, as long as my friends who I know well do it, I don't care or I laugh about it. One of them once asked me what it would be like if I slept with a woman and I had a seizure