[Caz]

It's actually my son who has the epilepsy. He has major seizures, but also absences to varying degrees. These can last from a minute or so, to about half an hour. sometimes he is just sat down and goes into a sort of trance, and others he will be moving around, doing silly repetitive actions, and remembers nothing obviously.
A lot of these absences seem to occur when he is eating, or if not, he still starts to make chewing motions as he is going into one.
Apparently they no longer call the seizures Grand Mal & Petit Mal, is that right? Would make sense as there are so many different kinds of seizure.
To me the absences are just as worrying as the major seizures. Everyone knows what one of those is, and people are slowly becoming more informed about the subject. But these absences have led to various incidents while he has been out, because people don't understand what is happening.