Yes, please tell him! I felt like a freak through my whole childhood because everyone was tight-lipped about my health or used euphamisms to describe what was going on. My mother wouldn't even say "seizures" until I was in high school, even though I'd had them since infancy! She called them "fevers," even though I hadn't had fevers with them since I was 4! I also had simple partial clusters from season change ever since I can remember (I'm 45), we didn't know what they were until I was 25, and I'd had six brain surgeries by high school, but no one would answer my questions about any of it until I almost died from what I didn't know and choked it out of them.
Sorry if this sounds harsh, but there is no benefit to sugar-coating, using euphamisms, or denying a health problem to a child. All it does is breed fear, shame, and ignorance. My son (almost 18) is autistic, and he's never known otherwise because we're completely open about it with him and his sister.
Good luck!
LIZ in RI
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From: "acamp53@ymail.com" <atellez48@gmail.com>
To: epilepsy@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 11:55 PM
Subject: [epilepsy] How to explain seizure to my child?
Hello all.
My 6 year old was recently diagnosed with complex partial seizures. He does not remember anything when he has one. Should I tell him that he gets seizures?
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