Are you drunk? You're not disabled. So should I turn those lights off?
Don't want you to have a seizure on me.
Should I hold you down when it happens? Keep your hands off me.
"Don't have a fit!"
What, can I choose?
Strangely enough, I don't control them.
I think people say it as, like, a joke as well.
Like, "Oh, don't have a fit."
I don't even like the word fit.
I think seizure's a better word, it's more softer. Yeah.
Seizure's a bit... It's a bit serious, that word.
It's an expression, like, having a hissy fit or whatever.
It fits. That was a Dad joke.
"Are you possessed?"
Are you?
My parents used to always joke we should hold an exorcism
cos the priest isn't up to much at our local church.
He said to me, I don't pray enough. It's because I don't pray enough.
My mum used to say that to me.
People think that you've got some sort of evil spirit in you.
It's easier to say he's possessed, rather than, he needs help.
If I'm possessed by anything, it's not the epilepsy. No.
It's crippling self-doubt.
"Have you ever had a seizure during sex?"
Yeah.
No, but it's one for the bucket list.
I'm waiting for marriage.
I did encounter someone once who had an epilepsy fetish.
It could actually be the makings of, like, a crazy orgasm.
I've never had someone ask me if I've had a seizure on the toilet,
but yet I've had someone ask me if I'd had a seizure during sex.
You would not ever say, "I wonder what it's like having sex
"with that person while they're unconscious?"
It'll be one of those stories you'd tell in the pub,
"Yeah, he was very enthusiastic, he was going at it,
"very odd...very odd techniques and manoeuvres."
"Should I turn the flash off?"
"Is it going to affect you, should I turn the flash off?"
Just take the damn picture.
Don't bother.
Because lights don't affect me and I think flashes make me look better.
I get it when I go into a club and there's a strobe light,
everyone's like...
One in ten people who have epilepsy have photosensitive epilepsy.
Whereas for me, lights do affect me.
What people don't realise is, everyone has their own triggers.
Lack of sleep, low blood sugar.
Overexcitement.
Eating the right foods, or if I skip meals and stuff like that.
And also alcohol, now, I've become very much like a monk.
Ambulances, for me, are like irony on wheels.
"Where is the worst place you've had a seizure?"
On top of a five-year-old.
I'm a bit of an exhibitionist when I have my seizures. Really?
I never do them in the privacy of my own home.
There was another time I was on a bus as well when it happened,
and I fell down on the bus.
And, again, people just walked past.
I cleared a nightclub.
I've fallen on a railway line too, so that wasn't great. Really?
I fell from, like, quite a...quite a big height.
But I shut the nightclub, so...
Go out in style.
"That's not really a disability."
I wouldn't call it a disability, it's a condition.
I can't fucking drive! I would call that pretty debilitating.
Because it's unseen, people don't sort of actually consider it
a disability or it has any effect on you.
And you see me every now and again, I'm talking and walking,
I'm doing what everyone else does, you'll think, "He's perfectly fine."
I had 20 seizures on Saturday morning.
They don't realise what it actually does to your brain
and your body as well.
And I felt wiped for the next three days. Yeah.
Epilepsy is a serious thing because I could just go
walking down the street and I could have a seizure.
I could be crossing the road and I could get hit by a car.
When someone says to me, "That's not a disability,"
I invite them to have a seizure, wake up in a pool of their piss,
not able to think of what they just did with a concussion and
having bitten their mouth to fuck, then tell me it's not a disability.
I'm not going to lie, it was...it does get really difficult sometimes.
There's times when I wake up from a seizure, and I just...
I'm so happy to be alive.
Epilepsy has made me who I am.
It's given the avenues to what I can do,
and I'm pretty happy and comfortable in my life, to be honest.
The self-awareness, and you're more connected to yourself because
you have to take care of yourself.
It's made me more determined to do what I want to do.
Yeah, I totally agree.
Actually, I can deal with anything because all this shit
has hit the fan, the shit has sprayed walls, and I've continued!
It's ruined parts of my life, but it's not going to ruin my life.
Oh, I like that! I'm going to put that as my Twitter bio.