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Risk of passing epilepsy to children?

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@caron7
Epilepsy is quite common in people who are autistic & those who have developmental disabilities.
Although I was hit in the head with a baseball bat as a child which is a possible cause for my epilepsy my brother and his two kids also developed it after I did so whether it was the baseball bat incident or genetics, who's to say. I had some kind of genetic testing in a study decades ago and don't remember anything about it now.
I wrote on here previously about the chances of children developing epilepsy from their parents, but I've been unable to find that information.
Does your granddaughter with autism also have seizures?
Take care,
Jake

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@jakedduck1
No, she does not, so far. The other granddaughter developed absence seizures about two years ago.

@jakedduck1 Hi Jake - My first seizure was in Oct of 1970 2 years after a motorcycle accident. I have been extremely well controlled with medication. I have three adult children, four grandkids and thankfully, nobody has any signs. Like yourself, I've wondered how I developed this out of the blue. Was it the accident or genetics. Will never know for sure. Stay well. Ed

@jakedduck1 - is this by chance the comment you posted that you were referencing https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/311744/?