EPILEPTIUM: Epilepsy and Adamantium

Speaking about Heroism to my younger readers, adults as well.

Epilepsy is a real thing,

Seizures are a real thing,

Adamantium is not a real thing, but it is something that we can refer to.

Adamantium is the regenerating metal that was put into Wolverine’s/Logan’s body by Sargent Stryker, who was his tenth experiment on mutants. Wolverine was worked on behind Professor Xavier’s back, creator of the X-Men in a school for gifted students, which were all mutants.

We have a neurological disorder and apparently so do mutants when referring to the movie LOGAN, Xavier’s seizures are so powerful that not only will he destroy himself, but the rest of the world too.

(NOTE: LOGAN is not for children or older parents)

We are not ready to be a mutant nor do we want to be, so we find ways of how to fight and win our own battles.

And the ones that do, the ones that can pop up and wipe their shoulders off after a fall from doing nothing but following orders, like Wolverine’s heroism, is something that the person in need of a hero may want to follow.

Just don’t expect to have 6 metal claws come out of your knuckles. As Logan says in X-Men played by Hugh Jackman when asked by a young Rogue, played by Anna Paquin, that releasing his claws “hurts every time”, just like Epileptium.

Epileptiums usually don’t remember the damage that they did or did not do. So, we wait until later in front of mirrors to see what had happened or what we are told by others with the marks, scars, black and blues that are pointed out to us.

Epileptiums just throw the pain aside and wait for the healing process to begin.

Think about the years and years of life’s struggles from Epilepsy and the way that we recover from seizures; sometimes without even knowing that there was a problem at all.

So, we think of Adamantium and compare it to how strong our bones, skulls and bodies are and we wonder that just maybe

Epileptium does exist!