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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you tell the difference? Anyone have any experience with a child who has these?[/quote]

I'm a special ed teacher, so I have a fair amount of experience with both.

Absence seizures really vary.  Some kids' are so short you don't see anything.  Some kids tremor or have some kind of hand or eye movement.  Some kids continue whatever they're doing automatically (so if they're coloring, their hand keeps moving, but it looks like scribble, or if they're walking, they'll keep walking) while other kids pause.  Some kids it's just a moment of staring off into space.  One thing that sets them apart is that the timing seems random.  A kid who is spacey gets spacier during down time or longer boring activities, so at relatively predictable times.   A kid with absence seizures is as likely to have them half way up the ladder to the slide, or while they're telling you what they want for their birthday, or when they're about to shoot a basket, that is, at times when a kid's attention would typically be caught up in the moment.

Here's a video of one kid's absence seizures, but it's just one kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3iLQi6wt94

Some kids are much more subtle than this one, some are much more obvious. [/quote]

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