Paula Apodaca wrote an excellent post on her blog E. is for Epilepsy about her personal reflections about famous people affected by seizure disorders. Here is a snippet, but read the whole thing...
For my own part, I can't say I feel better about myself knowing there have been famous or historical persons with E., but I do find reading about them as interesting as their works.
Of the ancients, Julius Caesar and Socrates are presented most frequently. Napoleon Bonaparte is often pointed out, but unfortunately, the only lesson I took away from Napoleon's story was that his E. betrayed him in the end, at Waterloo.
I liked writers with E. much better. Fyodor Dostoevsky filled my adolescent hours with great drama; Edgar Allen Poe, entertained me with horror stories; Count Leo Tolstoy made me cry.
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