Hi, I'm 21 years old.

I had an electroencephalogram test some weeks ago, and the neurologist told me that both hemispheres of my brain have many epileptiform activity and that I can have a striking symptom at any time from now. I just had no idea about it.

She asked me if I had weird behaviors or stuffs like that, but I didn't know how to reply to that. She asked me for example how was my studies in the school, and I told her the reality (I didn't finish it yet, I repeated 2 years), then she said it was very probably because of something related to that.... but lot of people repeat years, I just think that's a little farfetched.
And I just couldn't answer to the other questions. She said it's basically an anormal function of the brain cells, short circuits between them, that can probably cause weird behaviors on my psychology like with memory or attention.

She then asked me if sometimes I am like with my mind in blank and didn't pay attention at all to something that someone was telling me... the answer is yes... but doesn't it happen to everyone? I've seen that happening with lot of other people too.

But the main question that I want to ask you people is this... I've never had sexual orientation, it's a thing that I have never really understood. It has never been a problem because it's just a think I don't need. I know a lot about this, I've been on asexuality forums and all, but I never knew why can someone be asexual. No one into those forums have a good reason, the only reasons I've listened are that a person becomes asexual only if he/she was abused sexually or some ridiculous thing like that. My theory up to day was that the sexual orientation isn't a natural instinct in the human being, that it's just a behavior built by society. But since I have no proofs to prove that, and I've been diagnosed with epilepsy, I just don't know if these two things may have anything to do.

I'm asking this to you because I don't usually say that I'm asexual in real life because it's a thing that most people can't understand and would need a big explanation. But should I tell this to this neurologist? or is it 100% due to another completely different matter? Is there any chance for them to be related? (epilepsy and lack of sexual orientation).

Just that. Thanks for your time.

Hi Marolwes,

Welcome to the forum! I have lesions on both sides of my brain along with the frontal lobe of my brain which in turn has caused me to have absence and complex partial seizures (sz.) for 42 yrs. If I may ask have you ever felt confused or really tired and has anyone ever told you that you have had a daydream look on your face for a few seconds? If so then you may have had an absence sz. I have had many e.e.g's done along with a CT scan and MRI to find the detail of what's going on and over the yrs. I've had 2 surgeries to help reduce my sz.
If you are forgetful, have short term memory loss or seem depressed these are all other symptoms of epilepsy.
In regards to being asexual there's a possibility that the area of your brain that controls a persons sexual feeling is being affect by where the sz. are starting and this could be why you are feeling the way you do. If you have a lot of emotions that's the right temporal lobe of your brain this is also the area of your brain that enjoys music. Just like you I had problems with to many brain cells in my brain and that's what triggered the sz. for me. I had to have 75% of my right temporal lobe removed and all of my right hippocampus taken out. Its the hippocampus that controls a persons short term memory and one thing they have recently found out is that if a person uses a cell phone to often ever day this will shrink and harden a person hippocampus causing short term memory loss. Also some people may be cell phone sensitive meaning if they are around a few people using a cell phone at the same time it will trigger sz. for them. I found this out about myself after being at work and many people using cell phones at the same time and I had a sz. my Epileptologist did a special e.e.g. on me and in the other room Drs. started using their cell phones at the same time and I didn't know it but each time they did I had a sz. this all happened because of the frequency of the cell phone. I wish you only the best of luck and May God Bless You!

Sue