Epilepsy Blog Relay: Would you date someone with epilepsy?

by Jessica K. Smith | 0

Personally I’m grateful on soooo many levels that I’m not dating anymore. My amazing husband and I have been married 20+ years, and gawd if I had to start again–oof it would be bad. Not just because of the epilepsy and the cancer but because I’m generally super awkward.

(BTW I write this as I sit here watching my fave repeat movie “The Other Woman” featuring, Leslie Mann and Cameron Diaz)

I do tend to defend how funny I am even to my husband and daughter… Like I said, super awkward, and nothing to do with the epilepsy.
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Twitterverse on Dating and Epilepsy

Recently @BrainAblaze put the question out to twitter to ask whether or not twitter readers would date a person with epilepsy or who has seizures. I’ve embedded the responses below and I encourage you to take a look, despite my innate awkwardness and my possible questionable taste in movies.

Would you date a person with #Epilepsy or who has #seizures? #EpilepsyAwareness pic.twitter.com/JX1QHjBJjF

— Brain Ablaze (@BrainAblaze) April 18, 2022

So would you? Date someone with epilepsy?

I would encourage you to put the question out to friends and colleagues. Then comment here or on social media when you hear back. We’re all curious to hear.

Jessica K. Smith Founder and CEO; Executive Director

Jessica Keenan Smith is a patient advocate and epilepsy community leader with more than 15 years of experience. As Founder and CEO of Living Well With Epilepsy and Executive Director of ASENT she bridges the gap between the scientific and patient communities, with a particular focus on the needs of the epilepsies. Jessica Keenan Smith is Founder and CEO of Living Well With Epilepsy, an award winning online resource for people affected by epilepsy to share stories and access in-depth information on the disease. Since 2009, Living Well With Epilepsy (https://livingwellwithepilepsy.com) has been featured in Forbes, Wired, NBC, NPR and the cover story of Epilepsy Advocate Magazine and has partnered with companies such as UCB, Lundbeck, Sunovion, Eisai, and more. Ms. Smith is also the Executive Director of the American Society for Experimental Neurotherapeutics (ASENT) (https://asent.org), an organization that brings together leaders from industry, academia, government and advocacy who are engaged in bringing drugs and devices to market across all neurologic disease states. In this role she is responsible for leading a successful scientific journal and annual scientific conference with speakers from all over the world.

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