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How do you get an absent seizure?

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I get these kinds of seizures - here is an example: You and me are having a conversation, then you notice that while I am talking, I start to mummble for a second then continue with the conversation.
That is how my absence seizures happen. I call them "brain farts" as a personal joke.

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