Abstract
This essay explores the rhetorical ecology formed by the disabled community’s digestion of the Epilepsy Foundation website. Specifically, I focus on the resources available for epileptics to learn about sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). The ecology around this discourse is not a positive one with which to engage, which can be detrimental to the physical health of some of its readers. The language is negative, and its interactivity is inappropriate – on an impressionable group of people, discourse must be carefully constructed to limit its negative impact, even when the topic is distressing.
This argument is practical as well as theoretical; I aim to use this essay to petition for the restructuring of the website.