Personal Narrative: My View On Epilepsy

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Interviewer: What is your view on epilepsy.

Jimmy: I just think they are these things that happen to me every once in awhile where I pass out for 1 second, sometimes there are big epilepsies too.

Francis: They are these things that scare me a lot when they happen to Jimmy where he blacks out for a second and he has had 2 big ones I believe

Interviewer: That day in on bridge what was going through your mind.

Jimmy: I was just trying to take the bridge and the epilepsy just came to me and I wet my pants I was a little scared.

Francis: Me and jimmy were trying to “take the bridge” and jimmay just had a big epilepsy he also wet his pants. I was so scared because he was just out thereby himself, he was falling, his eyes were dancing and

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