I'm epileptic, and I feel like I learn faster than most people around me. Any coincedence?

Question

Is learning speed and brain development at all tied in with epilepsy? I know that Mozart, Alexander the Great, and Joan of Ark were all Epileptics too... I feel like I learn faster than a lot of my friends. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

It's possible. I think on 3 tracks (I have ADHD) and get bored if there aren't at least 3 things going on at a time. I think faster and learn faster and understand from more angles than others around me (or they don't show it) and if your brain fires faster than it can handle, it would make sense that you think better. ;)

You ARE special, even if it seems like you have a "deficiency". I love my ADHD. It makes me who I am. Being told I am intelligent is my FAVORITE compliment!

Answer 2

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041014080947.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilepsy


It appears that it is more likely that seizures from one side of the brain (left) are likely to increase learning problems, while seizures from the other (right) side of the brain don't. In other words, it appears (based on the article at the first link above) epilepsy is more likely to either cause problems or do nothing. Of course, there is the chance there's the chance there's something the people who wrote this article don't know or even something that hasn't been discovered yet by scientists.

Chances are you're just an intelligent person, and it has nothing to do with the fact that you have epilepsy.

How intelligent you are is very likely the result of how much your mother talked to you in your first few years of life and whether you were made to feel very secure and had the types of activities/interaction that form brain connections.

If you know what side your seizures originate in, you may want to do a little looking up of the relationship between the seizures and that part of the brain. You may want to look up whether any electrical changes that go on (or may have gone on in the past) would have "boosted" development of some part of your brain.

I have a feeling (but I don't pretend to know anything) that you happen to be an intelligent person who has seizures. Still, there is probably some chance that when a seizure occurs the brain may respond to it with changes in electrical and/or chemical processes, which possibly could do something.

Many people who know they learn more quickly than most people know there is something different about them and try to figure out what it is. That may be your situation. You could have a very high IQ (or at least one that is substantially higher than your friends'), and that could make you particularly aware of being different The epilepsy could be just a "side factor" that has nothing to do with anything.