[shillelagh]

I didnt retrain - when i was 14 i was told i would not be able to work in a factory, health & safety reasons if i had a fit i could hurt myself. No shopkeeper would give me a job because if i had a fit while working on the check out or lifting stuff onto the shelves health and safety risk, working with kids - if i had a fit while looking after the kids who'd look after them and me. I was told i would be better training for office work - that was when i was 14 - i stayed on after school and did a secretarial course. I went for a job as an office junior and they actually said to my face that he would employ me except for my epilepsy. That was in a solicitors office down accrington. Hows that for discrimination. They wouldnt get away with that now but back then he did.