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I have had epilepsy for 25 years, from being able to drive to multiple brain surgeries. AMA
u/Jabber-Wookie
• I have had epilepsy for 25 years, from being able to drive to multiple brain surgeries. AMA

Hello!

I was diagnosed with epilepsy back in the 90s. With college, careers, marriage, and children it affected everything. At one point I went 1.5 years without any seizures and was able to finally get my driver's license at the age of 36. A few years later it went down to multiple ones a week even with additional medication. 6 years ago I had a temporal lobectomy removing my left hippocampus (a part that works on short and long-term memories . . . I think. May have forgotten what it does.) I had a slow recovery but am doing much better seizure wise. Proof

Epilepsy can be misunderstood, overlooked, and disabling. Ask me anything.

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[Crosspost] I’m Rita Assaf, Vice President, Retirement Savings, at Fidelity Investments. I'm responsible for IRAs and more. I’ll be here live on Thursday, April 11, at 1 p.m. ET to answer your questions about retirement. AMA!
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• [Crosspost] I’m Rita Assaf, Vice President, Retirement Savings, at Fidelity Investments. I'm responsible for IRAs and more. I’ll be here live on Thursday, April 11, at 1 p.m. ET to answer your questions about retirement. AMA!

https://www.reddit.com/r/fidelityinvestments/comments/1bwhh8j/im_rita_assaf_vice_president_retirement_savings/

I am Chris French, head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths, and author of “The Science of Weird Shit: Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal." Ask me anything!
u/the_mit_press
• I am Chris French, head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths, and author of “The Science of Weird Shit: Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal." Ask me anything!

Hello! I am Chris French, Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the Psychology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. For those unfamiliar with the field, anomalistic psychology attempts to explain paranormal and related beliefs. I have been involved in skepticism for years, including a nine-year stint as the Editor-in-Chief of The Skeptic Magazine, the UK's foremost and longest-running skeptical magazine. I recently published The Science of Weird Shit with the MIT Press, which examines why people come to believe in improbable things like alien abductions, hauntings, and ESP, and shows there are plausible scientific explanations for even the most mysterious of otherworldly phenomena. Proof it's me.

As I explained in a recent interview, while I personally believe that genuinely paranormal phenomena do not exist, I may be wrong. For me, an important part of proper skepticism is to always be open to the possibility that one may be wrong. We would also be ignoring an important part of human experience if we made no attempt to understand “the weird stuff.” By taking such experiences and beliefs seriously, we can learn important lessons about the human mind.

I can’t wait to answer your questions. Please feel free to ask me anything, including sleep paralysis, ghosts, UFOs/alien abductions, reincarnation, out-of-body and near-death experiences, coincidences, precognition - in fact, pretty much anything weird and wonderful!