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

checked the evening doses, and took them without hesitation or fear. No one was watching to accuse me of being dramatic. No one was counting pills to prove I was secretly not taking them. No one was replacing them with placebos to test whether my seizures were real.

I walked downstairs and stepped into the backyard where my real family—the ones who’d continue reading …