Surreal Twitter Story About A Girl With Epilepsy Serves As A Valuable Life Lesson On Human Compassion

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Apr 10, 2019 6:00 PM EDT

As human drones going about our daily lives we can get so caught up in work stress or personal-life drama that we don't stop to think about the important things in life, like compassion toward others. This woman detailed her experience sitting next to an epileptic young woman on the subway in a Twitter saga and it might tug at your heartstrings a little bit!

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    Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook I'm waiting on kitty ultrasound results and trying to distract myself a little bit so l'd like to tell you a story about something that happened last night, in the hopes that I can process my feelings around it Imet a girl on the train last night 59.4K 1:49 PM - Apr 4, 2019 23.7K people are talking about this Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to@ErynnBrook I was on my way home after work. It's about 10pm, and the subway is pulling up to my stop. I've been stressed a
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    Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to @ErynnBrook At the top it said "my seizure plan". I blinked at it then looked up at her. "Are you having a seizure now?" I asked. "No, but I'm about to." She looked down at the monitor on her finger. "Can you sit with me until your stop?" She asked 4,968 1:53 PM - Apr 4, 2019 > 304 people are talking about this Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to @ErynnBrook She mentioned her stop was 3 stops away. I asked if she would like me to ride with her to her st
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    Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to @ErynnBrook I tell her I'm just going to ride the subway with her to her stop, and if we miss it, don't worry, I'll sit with her until the end of the line if need be and well just make the trip back together. She thanks me. I ask if she has her medication on her. She says she has one left 5,493 2:03 PM - Apr 4, 2019 > 158 people are talking about this Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to@ErynnBrook This seizure plan paper is like an anchor. It says what
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    Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to@ErynnBrook It says she gets these seizures 1-4 times a day, and each episode lasts 10-60mins Just think about that for a second. Think about being randomly completely vulnerable multiple times a day, and this is just... every day 8,522 2:07 PM - Apr 4, 2019 406 people are talking about this Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to @ErynnBrook She comes out close to her stop. I ask her if she wants to get off. And she says "I'm just so tired, I want to go hom
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    Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to @ErynnBrook I'm a big sister and a woman in the world. I'm either sitting with her until she's completely ready to get up and walk away on her own or we're gonna move together in shifts until she gets to her front door. There's no way I'm leaving an 18 year old on a subway platform alone. 9,266 2:15 PM - Apr 4, 2019 265 people are talking about this Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to @ErynnBrook She just needs to make it up the stairs. She says her con
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    Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to@ErynnBrook A few times she mentions how tired she is, and how close to home she is. Going up these stairs we keep an eye on her monitor. A train goes by and she covers her ears. Loud noises are a trigger for her. I ask if fluorescent lights are to0, she nods. We make it out of the station 4,938 2:20 PM - Apr 4, 2019 150 people are talking about this Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to @ErynnBrook She tells me that one of her seizures yesterday happened
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    Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to@ErynnBrook I have so many feelings. And they keep coming back to that scarf. That's the image I see. How it was pre-folded before she even asked for help. How she positioned herself to fall on the scarf pillow again and again. 6,281 2:27 PM - Apr 4, 2019 182 people are talking about this Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to @ErynnBrook She was fully prepared to go it alone. I didn't help her, not really. My job was to make sure that no one interrupted he
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    Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to @ErynnBrook We're taught to call 911 when something looks bad and we don't know what it is. And if I hadn't heard her, if she didn't have that laminated paper, maybe I would've done that when she started seizing 6,406 2:39 PM - Apr 4, 2019 226 people are talking about this Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to@ErynnBrook And this girl who's just trying to go home because this is her daily life, would've been burdened with loud noises and fluorescent light
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    Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to @ErynnBrook [cn/tw: assault] There is no policy or program structure that addresses the high rates of assault for disabled folks. Sexual violence, violent crimes, domestic violence, are all statistically more likely to happen to people with disabilities.ipolitics.ca/2018/03/15/wom... 7,440 3:07 PM - Apr 4, 2019 612 people are talking about this Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to@ErynnBrook I'm already pre-wired to go into big sister/soccer mom mode any
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    Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to@ErynnBrook We built a world where I could hit an emergency alarm button and walk off at my stop, feeling like I just saved this girl's life, who didn't need saving, without losing a minute of my day, if wanted to We built a world for convenience, not community. 13.6K 3:25 PM - Apr 4, 2019 1,209 people are talking about this Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to @ErynnBrook Don't get me wrong, emergency services are great and we should use them when we nee
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    Text - Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to @ErynnBrook "She looks nice." It took maybe 30 minutes out of my day to make sure she got home. And she didn't need me at all. She got there on her own. I guess I looked nice too. But she didn't want to ask too much. She didn't want to ask me to stay with her an extra 3 stops. 6,857 3:32 PM -Apr 4, 2019 228 people are talking about this Erynn Brook @ErynnBrook Replying to @ErynnBrook Accommodation is the bare minimum. If I sat with her until my stop and
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