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Leona ...in her own words.

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    mazepa7 wrote

    at October 25, 2009 04:25 PM

    Hi Leona, I'm an epileptic also and have faced similar outcomes. The best advice given to me thus far was to just tell the people what the seizures are, what needs to be done by those who whitness them, and then say it point blank. Chances are that people won't know how to take it and begin asking you questions. At job interviews it's turned the interview upside down making me the interviewer in some respects. It helped me to learn as to who this employer truly was and made it easier to decide if I truly wanted to work for them. The questions they ask, the attitude they portray allows you to see just "who" it is that you would work for. I have lost jobs before because a seizure happened to be stronger than my usual ones. The reply from the company would be "we don't need to have our employees scared away" or "we've lost too many people as it is from previous happenings", etc. Others with epilepsy have taken off on their own business road and started a business for themselves. The epileptic entrepreneurs were right and it's not easy, but is anything worth doing going to be "easy"? If you want to discuss this further or learn more about my change in life since starting a business with my mom, just ask me how. Best of luck to you, mazepa7@yahoo.com


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