To find this offensive

[JingleMyBells]

As I was leaving my neurology appointment, I have epilepsy, the receptionist loudly said to her colleague "I nearly had a fit the other night when I saw the state of the house".

To me wrong in many ways. Firstly, wrong terminology secondly, demeaning to people who have SEIZURES, could be upsetting for those newly diagnosed plus just generally inappropriate.

And before any calls me out "spastic colon" was the diagnosis given to me by a doctor.

Spastic colon describes better what I feel when I have an attack.

Re the use of the word "fit" it's an expression I no longer use, not out of any squeamishness but I have discovered the far more satisfying word
"conniption" which I like a lot.It's pleasingly Dickensian/Carrollian although probably made up.

Gynecology
He was an irritating cunt.

Too much? :o

CorusKate your long earlier post about not editing out normal words makes perfect sense.

Diabetic Clinic:
Oh, you are so sweet!

The posts yesterday (Friday) at 14.14 and 14.15 are the funniest things I have seen on tinternet for ages! Comedy gold!

YABU This is why political correctness has gone mad (sorry to offend anyone )... people are waaaay to sensitive. Do you never use phrases that could possibly upset a minority of people if perseved in the wrong way or scrutinised enough? Do you really want to live in a world where you have to analyse every sentence before talking, in case one person listening in might be offended?

Fairwnuff, when did I say I would use thw phrase "brainstorm"? You asked for my opinion, not whether I would use it

As Hmc said, there is no need to ridicule or belittle me. I have feelings and they count.

Morning Jingle.
You only seem to pop back on this thread when a poster has agreed with you. We have tried to lighten the tone a bit with the "things receptionist shouldn't say"

Jingle is it newly diagnosed to you? And that's why your taking it so much to heart?

I'm on your side JingleMyBells - I've been pretty traumatised by epilepsy (my son's) - the assholes on here just don't get what it is to live like that. You'd be better walking away from here and posting your original comment on the Epilepsy Action forum - they'd understand xxx

OP said she received bad news and thus, she probably was (and still is) feeling very over sensitive, yet people are continuing to pile in.

P.S. and also, this is 'AIBU', not 'take the piss out of the unreasonable poster'.

Weirdthing I have epilepsy and how dare you call me an asshole!

I know what it's like I have lived with it for 26 years so don't you dare make the sweeping generalisation that nobody gets what it's like to live like that.

The poster was and still is being UR she asked we told her. If she didn't want to hear it then she shouldn't of posted here.

Weirdthing - most people who have posted that they also live with the condition in one way or another, and yet they all said the OP was being Unreasonable..even more so now it's STILL dragging on.

I am willing to bet that each and every one of us has at one time or another said something like "having a fit " or "driving me mad"

YABU

Most people who have commented have said they also have epilepsy so yes they do know how the op is feeling but still think she is bu that does not make them assholes.

I've had epilepsy for 27 years, and, whilst I certainly can be an asshole, I am NOT an asshole. I still think the OP was BU on this thread but not about her original issue. Weirdthing, you're not showing yourself in the best light throwing phrases like that around, you know.

I have epilepsy.
Once in a while it jars when I hear people say "I nearly had a fit..". But really, life is too short to be bothered. Most people wouldn't make any kind of link.

Thank you Wierdthing, I've had epilepsy, due to a brain tumour for 23 years. Does that make me an 'asshole' as well?

OK - I give up, JingleMyBells - you want to carry on being offended, to nurse your sense of hurt, to feed your indignation, to stoke your fires of fury.

I will stop trying to get you to see that you are the only person whom you are hurting through this, and that you could choose to stop being offended/hurt/furious/indignant.

We can't choose what happens or what people say - only how we respond. You wish to respond in a way that is not good for you. That baffles me.

YABU

My DH has Narcolepsy. It is a fucking gift as far as cheap jokes and ridicule are concerned. Never mind thoughtless tenuous comments. For nine years he didn't know what a normal life was.

He has maintains a healthy sense of humour and understanding of how people can unwittingly come out with comments that could be construed as offensive.
Stop looking for it where it just isn't.

However I bet a pound to a pinch of shit that more than one knobend has quoted that stupid arse Stephen Fry on this thread.

I can see why you found it offensive. But it's just a word and I don't think people saying it would have any notion of its connection with epilepsy. Same as if people said oh I got a fit of the giggles. It's just a term. I agree the word has more than one meaning.