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		<description>Am I just over sensitive or does the word FIT describing a seizure sound offensive to anyone else. I can see the people using it have epilep...</description>
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			<title>Comment by remtana</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I've never cared for it called that before.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:11:30 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Abby8394</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I can see how this is offensive to you... unfortunately it's because of lack of education on other peoples part... and that is the big picture... it's easy to become offended especially since this involves your son... motherly protection and all... I'm sorry you had to go through that... I would rec...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:41:44 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by jessd</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I use that word occassionally myself and it's just a discriptive word...please don't take offense...it's just a word...that's just what it feels like and seizures are so hard to explain alot of times it's the first word that comes to mind...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:43:14 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by kc61</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Mabou- "Fit" is a cultural term- folks in other countries such as England or Australia use that word. Offense is NOT intended, it's just a cultural difference. Do you get upset if you say "gasoline" and a British person says "petrol"?]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by boudicca</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I seems to me it is more people in other countires besides America who use the word "fit" When I first saw it I pondered over it too... We use the word "FIT" to describe a child behaving badly. So, it is just a difference in cultures.  
 I can admit too, the first time I was personally called an "epi...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:28:19 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by chrisinuk</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Good point to bring up. I was diagnosed when I was living in England and all the doctors, ER, my GP, neurosurgeon...  would all use the term "fits" instead of seizures. There is a movement by epilepsy associations in the UK to get people to use the word Seizure, but the word "fit" is still seen as c...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:49:37 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Mabou</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thanks for your replies. I work with adults with intellectual disabilites and have heard offensive terms used to describe them. As far as the reply from kc61, I don't think there was any need for such sarcasm. I just posted a question and there is no need in this group for that.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:26:04 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by KatieB</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I've noticed that, too.  European and Canadians are more apt to use the word "fit" verses "seizure".  In America we are most likely to use the word "fit" as a temper tantrum...and yes, I can't stand the word either.  My doctor may say "seizure" or"episode", but never "fit".  Possibly it's from the o...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:35:43 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by RuthMH</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I have to put my two cents worth in here.... 
 KatieB, It is NOT the more common word for Canadian's to use.  Mabou is Canadian, as am I, and we both live in Eastern Canada...in Nova Scotia.  
  
 The word fit has always offended me and I have always corrected people as I have come across those who con...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:46:27 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by solisite</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ty RuthMH.  
  
 Also Canadian and ,originally, from NS too; I can also attest that, contrary to KatieB's comment, the term fit is not commonly used in Canada.  
 As kc61 said it is more commonly used in Britain and the UK.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:04:52 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Aust</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Here in aust it is still used at times as Kc says. I think it is going to take a long time for the word to be phased out. Most times I have heard it used is not meant with offense, just an accepted explanation, however seizure is also starting to be used slowly by the younger generation.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:00:57 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by AngryViking</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A rose by any other name would still be a...seizure? Lots of people, includin' a bunch of folks with epilepsy, call them 'fits' without meaning to offend or to belittle someone's problem.  I personally have enough headaches dealing with my condition and my meds and my fits to be worrying about tryin...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:11:29 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by KatieB</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I don't think anyone using the word 'fit' is using it offensively, and I sure didn't mean to ruffle anyone's fur.  Sorry.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:16:36 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by chrisinuk</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In all fairness to Mabou, she is a worried mother of a 7 year old child and as she mentioned, it is her concern that her son be treated with respect and dignity.   
  
 In this country, the word "fit" is no longer politically correct and it is seen as insulting.  I go back to my comment about using th...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:26:17 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by barb4</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[To just add my 2 cents worth, I think that those with seizure disorder and we who love people with seizure disorder, have become extra sensitive to others words, opinions and reactions to seizures.It can hurt. A rose by any other name... yes, that's a correct assessent. I love and respect you all. P...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:01:37 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by AngryViking</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[My wife read my reply and chastised me; she said I should not try to incorporate motherhood and logic in the same sentence.   
  
 I guess the only difference is I don't think there's anything wrong with stepping on toes, but neither is there a problem with thinking your toes have been stepped on - at...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:46:54 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by peachescartoon</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[To me "fit" describes a temper tantrum instead of a seizure.  If she would have said, maybe, "convulsion" would have been an more ACCURATE term.  Some uneducated people use simplistic words to try to get their point across.  I personally would have used a better term than "fit" because it isn't a "f...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:09:28 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by peachescartoon</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I don't think that "fit" is an accurate term.  "Fit" to me is synonymous to a child having a temper tantrum and that it is controlable.  I think that "convulsion" is a more accurate term because it is uncontrollable and also life threatening.  Some uneducated, ignorant people will use simplistic wor...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:16:14 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by chrisinuk</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Wow this is a hot topic! I have to take exception to peaches comment (please, please, please all be aware that we all don't live in the USA):  
  
 Peaches:  
  
 Mabou lives in Canada, so therefore lives nowhere in your country, and there are 300,000 Canadians who are known to have epilepsy.  With 6 ti...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:46:50 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by angeleyes818</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It isn't really offensive to me but no, I do not use that word to describe my seizures. Sometimes I will call it an episode, but not a fit. It just sounds so bad. A fit to me is like a child throwing a temper tantrum. That is just what MY brain automatically associates that word to.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:39:53 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by angeleyes818</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It isn't really offensive to me but no, I do not use that word to describe my seizures. Sometimes I will call it an episode, but not a fit. It just sounds so bad. A fit to me is like a child throwing a temper tantrum. That is just what MY brain automatically associates that word to.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by angeleyes818</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It isn't really offensive to me but no, I do not use that word to describe my seizures. Sometimes I will call it an episode, but not a fit. It just sounds so bad. A fit to me is like a child throwing a temper tantrum. That is just what MY brain automatically associates that word to.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:40:11 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by bigpuppy</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[io have been lucky no one has ever used that word to me so its not in my vocaublry fit is totally new to me. My 1 friend whom also has seziures he likes to say he has visted fairy land and I have quickly picked up on it I am not tthe biggest fan of the word episode or seziure its just me cuz when yo...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:00:15 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by heather1</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[canadian here to..grin.. i have only ever had one person ever use that word when refering to me...it was in physio therapy..and i took the time to ask her where she was from and where she trained..she was from canada and trained in the city i was living in... sigh.. she had asked me how often i had ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:20:10 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by kc61</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Mabou- sarcasm and offense was not intended- I simply used gasoline/petrol as an illustration of differences in vernacular!]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:26:42 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Mabou</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Well, I certainly didn't expect this reaction when I posted this question. To clear up a few misconceptions about me. I do live in a small rural community and the <a href="http://dailystrength.org/treatments/Education" onclick="treatmentHotLink('http://dailystrength.org/treatments/Education')" class="treatmentlink" title="Learn more about School">school</a> my son goes to does not have anyone else with epilepsy. They have in the past but no one with the many varities my son has. Its be...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:18:31 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by shesarebel</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[maybe in 'ENGLAND' they use word fit..i was diagnosed in 1996 i live in Scotland..my gp nor my nuro have ever used that word...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:20:02 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by retropig</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Tomato / Tomato... Potato / Potato..  I have to admit having had this argument with the husband for sometime before coming to the conclusion (as stated by Viking) "A rose by any other name..."    
 Yep... it is a negative term and after my husband and I consulted Webster's we came to the conlusion th...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 22:52:40 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Sketch1626</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I think it is a cultural difference. I've heard people use the term before. I've never really found it offensive myself, but I see how it could be I suppose. But, you just have to think it's because they don't know any better. It's just their simple understanding of what a seizure is. If you DO happ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 23:09:05 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by AngryViking</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In your case, Mabou, I guess I can understand the defensive posture of a mother standing watch over her child. 
  
 But what message does it send when I get ticked off at someone (hell, my doctor calls them fits still) for not being caught up on the latest most sensitive way to address my condition? 
 ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:03:15 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by chrisinuk</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[We should have a parliamentary debate on the topic (submit a bill to Congress for you American folk) - it's obviously the hottest subject around!]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 16:07:26 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by chrisinuk</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Nellie's post (sorry Nellie!). 
  
 I wanted to be cheeky and use the most popular <a href="http://dailystrength.org/treatments/Talking" onclick="treatmentHotLink('http://dailystrength.org/treatments/Talking')" class="treatmentlink" title="Learn more about Discussion">discussion</a> post to say good bye to the people I have spoken with, exchanged hugs, flowers and prayers with and wish you all the very best for the future. 
  
 This is a cracking lo...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 17:53:18 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by LMKuhn76</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hi, My husband was raised in a family where "fit" was used to describe seizures and he's just never shaken using the term. I HATE IT!!! It makes me feel like he is saying I am misbehaving or something like when someone says "that child is throwing a fit".  
  
 I am a mom to 2 kids with special needs ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 21:02:27 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by lovies54106</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I absolutely HATE it! My great Grandma had EP and my parents still to this day say "Well when Grandma would have her fits" HELLLO!!! Your daughter has this! I am very sensitive to it. My Great Grandma died all alone doing laundry in the basement of her home having a "Fit".......]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 11:59:01 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by AngryViking</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Geez don't throw a fit about it...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 15:22:18 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by VIRGINIA57</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I think we as parents can be sensitive to things that really don't bother our children. My son is blind. I cringe whenever I hear terms like " the blind leading the blind" , or " you must have been blind to miss that". These terms have imperminated our language. My son just excepts them as part of o...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 09:11:18 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by mcquade</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[i agree weiyh kc61,people are using ther own dialect when typing -no offence was ment]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 14:08:53 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by mcquade</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[sorry but i meat to say i use the said word ah i have major spelling problems and i use the easyist word that ican spell sorry if i offed anyone]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 14:44:28 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Maika</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I completely understand you.  Fits is an old term used when no one understood epilepsy and thought we were possessed or nuts. 
 If it is an consolation I work for the ontario government who trained my co-workers that we go into "epilepstic frenzies" and may kill ourselves or others.  So inmates that ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 17:05:09 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Caz64</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hi Well I am British and I find the term "fit" hurtful and offensive. Its not a culture thing In my book.xx]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:40:59 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by lucindamartinez</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While I detest the word 'fit' being used to describe seizure activity...honestly, while attending <a href="http://dailystrength.org/treatments/Education" onclick="treatmentHotLink('http://dailystrength.org/treatments/Education')" class="treatmentlink" title="Learn more about School">school</a>, particularly grammar <a href="http://dailystrength.org/treatments/Education" onclick="treatmentHotLink('http://dailystrength.org/treatments/Education')" class="treatmentlink" title="Learn more about School">school</a>...it was the aftermath of seizures at <a href="http://dailystrength.org/treatments/Education" onclick="treatmentHotLink('http://dailystrength.org/treatments/Education')" class="treatmentlink" title="Learn more about School">school</a> that made me really feel badly.  As if I were waking up to a sea of little shocked faces as to what could possibly be hap...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:50:15 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by claz</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Just thought i'd add to this post.I'm from the UK.You've probably heard of Amy Winehouse.This morning the news broke that she had overdosed and had suffered several FITS, nobody within the 10 minutes on the news called them seizures.Don't know if it offends me, it's just slang to me, if i do go to t...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:35:15 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Deeminx</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I think I've read through most of the replies here n they all say the same x I live in th e UK (Scotland) and most people here still refer to seizures as fits x Those of us who don't personally have or know someone who has epilepsy can't begin to comprehend the complexity of the condition x for most...]]></description>
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