this will be my second time sharing this petition, but it is still open, so lets get it done people! 

concussions are the big thing in foot ball right now. but what the NFL hasn’t considered is that seizures can be a symptom of a concussion and that post traumatic epilepsy is possible after a traumatic brain injury. so epilepsy is an issue that the NFL should take up.

faith in humanity restored #findtraintom

FUN FACT! Did you guys know that you can set up something called a "Medical ID" on your iPhone? This can be accessed even while the phone is locked by clicking on the emergency options and can display things like name, DOB, emergency contacts, medical conditions and even blood type! It can be managed by clicking on the little "Health" app that comes default on the phone. #themoreyouknow

Dear tumblr, why do you hate people with epilepsy?

no for real. just go to the epilepsy tag and scroll for a bit. I DARE YOU. what is supposed to be a tag meant for people with epilepsy to communicate and share information has been turned into attempted murder by flashy gifs. sure there are legitimate posts put there by us. but you can’t look at them without running the risk of running into every flashing gif known to man. 

Please tag your flashers, and fast paced repetitive gifs. but do not put them in the epilepsy tag more appropriate tags could be seizure warning or trigger warning. take your pick. sounds simple right? but there are still people who fight us with this finding this task affects them to much to take a few seconds to tag a gif

first off this guy is over reacting, we do not ask that you tag EVERY GIF we only ask you tag, bright,repetitive,fast, flashing images, if for example if it is just a looped animation  it should be fine (unless it is as just described). second tagging a gif takes only 2 seconds, and seems alot easier than learning to disable software. 3rd alot of people  have already taken this precaution. BUT they cannot do this on the tumblr app. finally if you are able to tag it epilepsy and potentially kill us. you can stop doing that and instead tag it appropriately. 

and finally we have these people

just terrible, what is funny about this? “DUR that guy has epilepsy so I’m going to send him a flasher so he will fall on the floor and twitch, and foam at the mouth, and pee himself, and stuff DUR.” luckily the person did not have photosensitive epilepsy, or this could’ve been a tragedy.

by now you are probably asking yourself Why should I care? it is my blog I can post what I want why should I cater to these people? We are not trying to tell you what you can and can’t post, we are asking you to take 2 seconds out of your day to tag your gifs. 

Just think about this. You are not affected at all, but if a person with photosensitive epilepsy see’s your gif, they could have the seizure that turns into another seizure that they don’t wake up from. or they could fall and hit their heads against a table and bleed out. or they could have a seizure, not show up to work, get fired the next day. REAL LIFE SHIT just because you didn’t want to tag your gif. 

I’m sure I will get hate mail for this, but this is something that needed to be said. 

this is an easy to follow flow chart on when to call an ambulance for a seizure.