Has epilepsy affected your friendships?

I have epilepsy

Yeah it's definitely affected friendships, i pretty much don't have any because nobody understands sadly

Male 55 - I was first diagnosed at the age of 7, school was very hard for me. My peers saw me as different and the teachers didn't understand epilepsy, in all honesty neither did my parents. Yes I was beat, kicked, bitten at school and nothing done about it!
I grew up alone other than one or two other ostracized friends that I would talk to and the older girls who wanted to mother me.
I therefore did everything I could to prove I could do everything what everyone else could include put my life in danger in the sea! It lead me getting into trouble with girls at an early age and also with the police.
I am married now with children and a very good job, socially I struggle in new situations without people I know around me. I much prefer a female environment to a male one because that's what I grew up in. I am happy now but life has been hard and this is the first time I have spoken so Frank about it. @

Yes it has but one man showed me that the friends who backed out on me were not my friends and he has been a life long friend since we were kids and never backed off on me one time for my seizures and always helped me out with anything I needed and that showed me who a real friend is