My Mother Accused Me of Faking a Medical Episode—She Didn’t Know the Cameras Were Recording

blanket into tight knots, “was about three months after my diagnosis. I was sixteen, still trying to understand what epilepsy meant, still learning to take my medications on schedule.”

I forced myself to look up, to meet their eyes. “She secretly replaced my anticonvulsant medication with sugar pills. She told me later that if I had seizures while taking continue reading …