{"id":288451,"date":"2026-02-09T06:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/288451\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T06:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:31:14","slug":"living-with-epilepsy-teachers-would-say-shes-such-a-good-student-but-she-daydreams-a-lot-in-fact-i-was-having-seizures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/288451\/","title":{"rendered":"Living with epilepsy: Teachers would say \u2018she\u2019s such a good student, but she daydreams a lot\u2019. In fact, I was having seizures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAlina Diniz had been having seizures since the age of 12, but wasn\u2019t diagnosed with epilepsy until her mother filmed her during an episode. This proved a turning point and helped her find the right treatment and medication. She shares her story on International Epilepsy Day\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alina Diniz had to deal with epilepsy for years before she was properly diagnosed.  Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/93784178-4dc6-445b-9307-9b68b939b688.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Alina Diniz had to deal with epilepsy for years before she was properly diagnosed.  Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Think of epilepsy and you likely envision someone lying on the ground having a full-on convulsive seizure. Over 45,000 people in Ireland have epilepsy, a neurological disorder that affects the brain, and results in repeated seizures, yet most know little about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In fact there are four types of epilepsy and a total of 21 different types of seizures. With temporal lobe epilepsy, the most common type of focal epilepsy, those with the condition can have several different types of seizures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alina Diniz had been having seizures since the age of 12, but wasn\u2019t diagnosed with epilepsy until her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[117984,103,61,60],"class_list":["post-288451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-erin-mccafferty","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}