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Re: Can one be narcoleptic but not nap?

Posted by SleepyHead2 on April 16, 2007 at 11:39:02:

In Reply to: Re: Can one be narcoleptic but not nap? posted by seabrooke on April 13, 2007 at 14:58:29:

I can totally relate to Seabrooke's comment about the way people perceive narcolepsy. I could not stay awake for a meeting at work, or an all day seminar, much less a movie. I have even fallen asleep watching my son's baseball games and while exercising on an ellipical trainer...who knows how I kept excercising (but we are good at doing things like that :) autopilot). Anyway, I would hear coworkers make rude comments, like "did you get that?", "are you awake", "she feel asleep". It was so embarrassing that when I was diagnosed, I let them all know about the disease. It is ignorance.

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