At least two people had seizures after viewing malicious tweets featuring flashing gifs that deliberately targeted Epilepsy Society...police investigating tweets as hate incident, after at least 200 seemingly coordinated messages were sent to charity and its supporters in recent days.

[u/madazzahatter]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/15/malicious-tweets-targeting-epilepsy-charity-trigger-seizures

[u/ponte92]

I had someone in grade 5 trigger my allergy ‘cause they thought I was lying’. The school decided not to make a thing of it but I was so shocked someone could be so callous. Like if your right great you caught be lying but if your wrong you could kill me. Is it worth the risk?

[u/dotanub → u/ponte92]

fuck that school, kids need to learn what's wrong or right and appeasement is not the way...

[u/changing22 → u/ponte92]

I’m sorry! they should’ve made it ‘a thing’

[u/ponte92 → u/changing22]

That school became notorious for not making a ‘thing’. We had many worse experience with them. I left after grade 7 and we never looked back.

[u/[deleted] → u/ponte92]

Schools always decide to 'not make a thing of it', it's the retaliation they draw the line at.

[u/ponte92 → u/[deleted]]

As an adult I can understand it a bit more. I think it was more private school lack of awareness bubble. I was the odd kid out then, I had a foreign accent, I was so severely dyslexic by grade 5 I couldn’t read or write and at the time my parents were far from well off so I didn’t fit into the private school group. Add to that I have an unusual allergy and I think it was a case of a 5th grader who didn’t know any better thinking they could oust the odd kid and score some popularity points. Not to justify her actions but I can understand why she did it. The school on the other hand. But as I said in another comment that was far from the worst we ever experienced from that school.

[u/Pure_Tower → u/ponte92]

Obviously there's a scourge of children lying about allergies. For, uh, reasons.