Snowden (who really does, apparently, have epilepsy) helps an epileptic.

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128. I have a young relative who endures seizures.

It is a byproduct of CP, and he is also "on the spectrum." I am not unfamiliar with the associated issues, though I am not dealing with them every day, his parents are.

Since this is the first "Horse's Mouth" evidence I've seen of Snowden's epilepsy at all, I couldn't begin to "Frist" and tell you what kind he has. However, he did go from an amoral asshole who snarked about prostitutes, delivered cultural insults about the Swiss people, and was, in general, stone-cold in terms of attitude, wanting to shoot leakers in the balls, to someone who has adopted a very emotional and moralistic tone about what he feels the NSA should be doing--it's not quite religious fervor, but it's close. Thus, speculation -- and that's all it can be -- isn't something that's light years from far left field.


The woman who had the seizure is the one writing the article--her's is a first person account. And note what she says (from the link at the OP):

Has Snowden always been like this? Is he interested in more than his own salvation? People who have met Wizner realise that this man must have influenced Snowden too. He must have turned him into an activist at last. It was Snowden, however, who wanted it to not be all about himself, it was Snowden who retreated so that his documents could speak, explains Wizner.

....Ben Wizner brings a glass of juice. He is moved. He has been travelling for a year, because Snowden is stuck in Russia. He speaks where Snowden doesn’t have a voice. For a year now he has literally been Snowden’s right-hand man.

He just followed Snowden’s advice via Skype and stopped me from falling against the metal filing cabinets in his office. “That’s Ed how I know him. The empathy, the clear voice, the care,” says Wizner.

What "kind" of epilepsy Snowden has isn't critical. It presents in a number of different ways. It can cause behavioral changes in all its iterations --and those changes are just that--changes. This attempt to equate change with "wrong" or "bad" isn't coming from me--it is coming from the people who claim to be Snowden's champion because their goal is to shut this thread down. That kind of ham-handed approach doesn't prevent discussion, though--it just makes their agenda of topic limitation apparent. I don't understand why they can't hit HIDE THREAD and move on. Instead, they have been disrupting, diverting and derailing incessantly for the past several hours. It's very odd behavior, frankly, and it serves no purpose save to reveal their goals.