I: At the time, I felt you were a bit of a freak if you had epilepsy, which now I don’t think at all. But, at the time… yeah, it was a very scary time.
B: Epilepsy has sort of held me back in my life, especially my education. I had trouble in school.
R: It’s amazing how hard children can be.
B: I got bullied a lot.
L: The exams that I passed at school – that didn’t really count for anything, it was just this label – ‘epilepsy’. That was the thing that everyone was concentrating on.
I: I was very anxious about what was going to happen next. I really thought that it would put a lot on hold, because it was a couple of months before I was going to do my A levels and go off to university. It was potentially going to put all that on hold.
R: I was told that I would never pass the eleven plus.
B: I had to sit at the front of the class because, being epileptic. And the bully boys sat behind me, and the teacher would never see the bully boys.
R: But I did then pass the eleven plus, and I went to a very good county high school, probably one of the best…
