(aside from having epilepsy) do you believe that you're 'neurotypical'?
and second question, how has the search for effective medicine gone for you?
I just wonder, given how little we truly know about neurology and how people's brains work across the full spectrum of humanity and brain function, if there has been more research done on the efficacy of neurological treatments and anti epileptic drugs done on the 'middle 50%' of the bell curve, and if that has a measurable impact on the process of finding effective medication for epileptics?
With the small amount of googling I've done, it appears that epilepsy has a higher rate of incidence amongst neurodivergent people, but what is the actual rate of 'neurodivergent' vs 'neurotypical' amongst diagnosed epileptics?
I'm having a hard time finding the right words to fully explain my thoughts, but basically, we have a broad idea of how brain function works, but in any individual all sorts of stuff can work totally differently from what is thought of as 'normal'. Do people who fall closer to 'normal' tend to have a better experience with AEDs, given the fact that our drugs are developed to work on more people (a broader swath of the population) rather than directly for an individuals brain chemistry?