Dawn O’Porter

I will still find myself, you know, right, OK, something's gone wrong, something's making me sad, get into the kitchen, cook something, put it on the table, bring everyone together, and that will make everything feel better for at least, you know, 20 minutes.

I was.

It's so 80s, I think, that story.

It made me laugh and then it sort of made me really sad.

It is.

It's mad.

It's the most 80s thing I think that I could possibly write about the 80s.

But I kept having these, in crowds, I would just go into this kind of dream, dizzy state where I would kind of glaze over and almost detach myself completely from what was going on.

And my auntie would have

them as my funny turns and I couldn't control them.

I would just be fine.

And the next minute I was just, I mean, I was just like, I was suddenly really drunk.

And I remember kind of saying to her that it's getting more and more frequent and it's quite weird.

And then I went to brownies one night and my brown owl woman said,

whoever Brown Owl was, said to me, I think you're epileptic.

You're epileptic.

This is epilepsy.

So you can't cycle home.

I'm going to drive you home.

We're going to tell your family that you're epileptic.