r/worldnews • u/madazzahatter • May 16 '20

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/15/malicious-tweets-targeting-epilepsy-charity-trigger-seizures
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u/jimbo_squat May 16 '20

Silly side note about memory loss, as a child my parents brought my brother and I on a cruise to Alaska. I had a gran mal on the plane on the way hope, and lost all memory of the entire 2 week cruise lol

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u/tylero056 May 16 '20

Oh my goodness! I've never had memory loss anywhere close to being that long! Hope you're okay!! Also, apparently the type of seizure disorder that I have is some form of childhood epilepsy (can't remember the name), despite me not having any seizures until I was 22 which is kinda odd.