The Strobelight Effect Close your eyes and picture a dark room.
(Wait until you finish reading this actually, and then close
your eyes and picture it.) There’s a strobe light that starts
flashing slowly at first, but then gradually it speeds up the
flash. The movement in the room such as people or anything else
is only in limited vision. When the light is on, you can see the
movement, but it always seems to be at a pause. When the light
is off, you see nothing. Ironically, I use this to explain to
you how the world of Epilepsy is. What do you think of when you
hear the word “Epilepsy”? Most responses are somewhere along the
lines of, “It’s that disease where people go into seizures after
seeing flashing lights or something.” What are seizures? “When
the body begins to convulse or shake. People who have seizures
are a danger to others and to themselves.” These are only partly
true statements, bu they are all what are most commonly known.
When asking random people in a chat room if they know what
epilepsy is, t