Oh those side effects!
You are first-rate at nonfiction and should be selling articles like this one to magazines!. Seriously. Polished and well edited too. Your posts are so informative and well-researched and documented, I see why you average one post a month.
Our nephew is epileptic. not easy to diagnose! He would stare into space for a seconds "blank out," something anyone might dismiss as part of his ADHD.
A co-worker lost his pilot's license when a head injury caused epilepsy. My grade-school classmate died at 18 when she had a seizure while driving. Rear-ended another car and went up in flame. In third grade we saw her first seizure: she blinked, picked up a textbook and hurled it at Llash Van Raden. We were stunned. It was even bigger than the time Kevin Smith fell off the slide (from the top!) in first grade and we flocked around with bated breath as teachers tested him for damage: What is your name? "Shevin Kith," and it was more awesome and terrifying than a King Kong movie. (Small school, K-12 all in one building.)
Thanks you for this article. You brought back a lot of memories, too.