Coming of Age in College with Seizures
On a warm spring day last year, Lamisa Khan lay on the concrete outside of an elementary school in Queens, NY. As she regained consciousness, she found her boss and a crowd of children staring down at her in horror. She was bruised and bleeding from scrapes on her forearms and temple, a few feet away from where she had been standing just moments ago.
“I don’t remember anything right before or after the event,” says Khan, who, at that time, was visiting the school as part of her spring college internship working for a New York City council member. “I was standing behind a table, then I woke up on the ground in a completely different area. I don’t remember walking a couple steps down there.”