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I was epileptic throughout puberty. After it was diagnosed and i understood what was happening, i started to recognize the feeling of absence/petite mal seizure

I was epileptic throughout puberty. After it was diagnosed and i understood what was happening, i started to recognize the feeling of absence/petite mal seizures before they happened. I used to refer to it as an "aura" because i had no better way to phrase it. Medication was a silver bullet for me and it all went away by my early 20s. I've not had a seizure since, but the closest i have come to experiencing that "aura"-like sensation since has been times of extreme auditory load: loud, frantic music mixed with hustle and bustle around me. And i'm a regular (sober) concert attendee. I've never had a seizure from these situations, but the article puts to words a sensation i've never really voiced to others.

spondylosaurus 3y ago
Funny, "aura" is the exact term I've heard other people use to describe the same phenomenon. Likewise for the precursor feeling before migraines. Glad the seizures eased up in adulthood (knock on wood). A former coworker of mine was in a similar boat—childhood epilepsy, responded well to meds as a teen, totally fine as an adult. It's borderline miraculous how you can just... grow out of it, sometimes. Brains are strange!
alamortsubite 3y ago
> I used to refer to it as an "aura" The protagonist in Fabián Belinsky's last movie (RIP) refers to it that way, too: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420509 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420509.