Discrimination

As people living with Epilepsy we all have dealt with some form of discrimination in our lives during the time that we have been diagnosed with this condition. I myself have dealt with my fair share of employers who have no empathy and understand and use discrimination instead of working with the employee to help them or even in the interview stage, as soon as they hear the word epilepsy or medical condition they instantly rule you out. Hence why i don't tell employers during the interview process, or even when I've got the job. I've had an a few experiences I can share with you, one was back in 2017 I was overseas in the United Kingdom, I was working for an company called Tesco mobile, three weeks into the training I was hospitalised for several weeks in the neurology unit in Salford royal hospital in Manchester, due to another medical condition I have called hydrocephalus (fluid in the brain) the tube that is connected to the shunt had snapped from my neck, I was in extreme amounts of pain. I was fired from my job because of my absence, they were aware that I was in hospital. I'm pretty sure the can't do that. I also have an learning difficulty which means it takes me longer to understand and learn certain things, some people don't understand that and recently I've been judged because I learn slower than others and they think I'm pulling the epilepsy card to get out of things which is wrong. I'm just trying my best. Thing is people shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, epilepsy is am life threatening condition in some cases, mine for example you can't see mine even happening. I'm just had enough of this discrimination.