Aside from being wrongly diagnosed with brain damage, Susan Boyle was correctly diagnosed with epilepsy from a young age. In a 2011 interview with the Daily Mail, the “Britain’s Got Talent” star revealed that she regularly suffered from seizures during her school years, something which gave her childhood bullies even more ammunition to use against her.
Boyle also said that her mother and father didn’t know the best way to deal with the condition which has also affected the likes of Sir Elton John, Lil Wayne, and Neil Young. “I was protected in cotton wool,” she said. “[My parents] thought they were doing the right thing. They called me touchy. At school, I used to faint a lot. It’s something I’ve never talked about.”
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The star also believes that the medical profession wasn’t much better informed when it came to the brain disorder, which can cause a variety of physical and occasionally psychological symptoms. She added, “People in the public eye don’t have things like that. All through my childhood they’d say epilepsy is to do with mental function. And now I realize it’s not. I was up against all those barriers. It wasn’t easy.”
