I'll go ahead and answer the latter question since nobody else has given you a proper response.

I had a partial/focal seizure last Tuesday (although I've had a "classic" seizure too) and it was really bizarre in a way to sort of be functional, I was telling my friend about some of the symptoms like some visual hallucinations I was having, and doing it so matter of factly she had no idea something was going on…

Jezebel uses a lot of slang. It's one of the reasons people like it. I've had to look slang terms up before, like DTMFA, and I didn't cry about it to the author. I was a big girl and learned a new term!

In case anyone is wondering, the girl was removed from her mother's care. On her now deleted Facebook page the mother all but admitted that she was on drugs, saying it had never happened in front of her daughter before and she feels like shit for allowing her daughter to see her like that.

Narcoleptic here to say that (unfortunately?) that's not narcolepsy. Her behavior doesn't resemble cataplexy at all, which is actual paralysis and always scary, no matter how 'routine.' Nor does it look like she's having a sleep attack, which looks pretty much like someone just fell asleep. A sleep attack doesn't…

Come on darlin, you know how to look something up on urbandictionary.com.

Yes, this is almost certainly heroin. But re your comment: there are seizures like on tv (tonic-clonic), and then there are absence seizures, tonic seizures—for which you are mostly conscious, and myclonic seizures. You *probably* wouldn't recognize these unless you were used to them.

I would have hit the little bitch too. And with a good lawyer and the video evidence, mom should be able to get the charges dropped or at least lowered

In regards to your first point, I recently fainted (pregnant; it was breathing problems related, not diabetes) in my bedroom while getting some socks with my 3.5 year old. She apparently pulled a blanket down from the bed, put it on me, and then calmly went upstairs and told her father that I had gone to sleep. She…

Real talk: Is it possible she's having a seizure? Maybe I'm the asshole for thinking people don't do heroin and then immediately get on a bus... I'm sure anyone who regularly takes public transportation would be happy to correct me.

This COULD have been a thoughtful piece on what happens when a parent is stretched to their limits. Schools rarely enforce zero-tolerance bullying policies, the other child's parents don't give a shit and your kid is constantly coming home bruised, battered and hysterical. What is a parent supposed to do when they've…

Yes, it appears that this sort of confrontation is entirely routine for this child. Only this time, it ended up differently.

Seriously, I want to kick that bitch in the face.

Looked to me like the girl needed to be knocked on her ass. Too bad it didn't happen.

Logically I know it would be wrong to hit a 12 year old, but the girl put her hands on the mom first, and slapped her first and in the mom's shoes I can't honestly say I wouldn't reflexively slap back. It's easy to say you'd be the bigger person, but it's a lot harder to actually do.

You know, I get that the lady, as an adult, might have overreacted... But only maybe and only slightly. I realize my statement will not make me popular, but those of us who saw the unedited video with the little girl using some very choice spanish curse words know that it isn't just a case about a woman "punching" a…

Maybe it's cause I've been bullied to much or maybe it's cause 12 year old girls are awful, but I am having a really hard time feeling upset over this. Like, my brain says, "Don't ever hit children!" but my heart says,"I bet that little shit got what she deserved." It could also be that I am sick and I shouldn't be…

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As someone who got bullied frequently in a school where teachers and administrators did nothing to help, as someone who was small for her age who couldn't physically defend herself, I would have loved it if my mom beat up my bully for me.