Hi Brad,
I had my first seizure when I was a teenager, 13/14 years old, I can not remember well, it is so long ago (I am 52 years old right now). I had very few seizures, about 3 per year, they started as simple and evolve into complex, but were very mild ones. Right after a seizure that lasted just seconds, I was back as if nothing had happened. I lived this way without knowing I had epilepsy until I was 46/47 years old (2016/2017) when things started to change because of a period of much stress and then burnout. First, I had changes in my sleep and memory, followed by an increase in my seizures and more time to recover. But it took two more years to be diagnosed with epilepsy (temporal lobe), which happened in February 2019. My epilepsy most probably is related to an accident I had when I was 5 years old that caused a small lesion on my hippocampus, left side, staying my epilepsy in a latent phase until I became a teenager when this condition first manifested itself. It stayed quite silent for so many years, having evolved because of this burnout I had.
If you have any other questions, feel free to ask me.
Have a nice evening!
Santosha