I had a student who was epileptic, as was my daughter. You don't do anything while having a seizure, believe me; you are incapacitated and having convulsions (major seizures are terrifying to watch and minor ones are still scary). Afterwards, you may be disoriented (my student said some pretty weird things while wandering around my office one time), but probably wouldn't be wandering into someone's home and picking up things to steal . . . He may have still been disoriented enough following an earlier seizure not to make good decisions when confronted, I suppose, but if he was lucid enough to break and enter and steal stuff . . . I don't know.
I had a student who was epileptic, as was my daughter. You don't do anything while having a seizure, believe me; you are incapacitated and having convulsions (major seizures are terrifying to watch and minor ones are still scary). Afterwards, you may be disoriented (my student said some pretty weird things while wandering around my office one time), but probably wouldn't be wandering into someone's home and picking up things to steal . . . He may have still been disoriented enough following an earlier seizure not to make good decisions when confronted, I suppose, but if he was lucid enough to break and enter and steal stuff . . . I don't know.
Thanks for the insights, Beth! That sounds right to me -- more right than what his sister was saying.