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

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.

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

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

IVIG treatment.