Hi Nebulosity

Welcome to NeuroTalk .

Possibly what happened with your "fake" petit mal seizures (also called absence seizures) is that the neurological processes involved in doing that mimicked those of "real" absence seizures, leading to EEG-detectable events.

Regardless of that, absence seizures usually resolve spontaneously by the time somebody is in their teens.

Best wishes.

The absence seizure is one of the ones that there is a specific pattern for
in an EEG. I'm honestly not positive anyone could create an pattern to
make up the exact correct pattern that comes from the real absence
seizure. I had them too as an child and teen till I was around 15.
I grew out of them at about 15 or 16. I got to drive at 16

I can tell you for a fact that I was clumsy and could get dizzy and other
things all the time. SO I don't know. As an 30 or 40 year old I had
another EEG just to make sure I didn't have more seizure events.

My son has seizures his is the complex partial with secondary generalized.

Donna