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A Hypothetical Question. Below.

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Englewood, CO

We all have our own conditions and disabilities and illnesses etc, now as for we know what we go through as for the condition we have, and we try to explain to others, if you could be and experience someone's health condition and see for real what it's like to go through that experience and health issues they have, would you, and nothing against the question here and nothing bad would happen to you or the other person, kinda like trading places let's say, I think that I would. How bout you… read more

June 11
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A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

Yes , I would trade places but I wouldn’t want the other person to be stuck with my condition. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone

June 11
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I would have to say yes because with epilepsy many people have their opinion on how I should act and feel and even though I can try to tell them they never quite know what it's like. So yes until you can feel what they go through stand in their shoes first

June 11
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I have a friend I've known since college, Dave got around good but was legally blind although we'd go to Blue's hockey games & he told me he could see the images of the hockey players skating & he'd be 1" from the computer screen so he could do work. I wanted to understand what he was dealing with, what it was to be blind. Well February 1998, God granted my wish. For no known reason I became totally blind, multiple other possible issues, it became a case study. I couldn't see images, I couldn't see anything. People led me around the medical center so I could go to meetings, & although your smell, & hearing picks up for location & such, I just couldn't experience the beauty of God's creation. Try to make a meal for yourself when you can't see shit. Everything was pitch black, & very painful, w/ eyesight at 20/2000 which was the max of the machine. I was not Needless to say it was a learning experience, a test of faith as I knew that no matter what, the MD's at BJC / WUMS couldn't do a damn thing. Whether blind or not, there was a reason for it, God would take care of me & I must live my life. Something quite different than epilepsy. So when I regained my eyesight to better than it was prior, such that I could see the beauty of God's creation once again. I give thanks to Jesus Christ for the experience & must be thankful for my life good or bad, although I do bitch a lot, question God why I must go through the tough times, but in the end know there's a reason, it just sucks going through those times.

June 12
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

People make assumptions based on their own opinions regardless if we try to explain what it is like to have a certain condition etc.

In other words...
It's all about assumptions

June 11
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