Hayden Panettiere tells us why it is so importance to talk about epilepsy, how talking about epilepsy is empowering for everyone, and how to become a part of the Talk About It Promise. [ TalkAboutIt.org ]

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Hayden Panettiere.

Empowering Others With Epilepsy.

TalkAboutIt.org was created by Greg Grunberg (star of NBC's HEROES) in collaboration with the Epilepsy Foundation, and unites Hollywood stars to ask questions and to provide answers on epilepsy awareness, and invite change in the public's false understanding and perceptions about epilepsy.

EXT. DAY. SUBWAY PLATFORM.

Actress Hayden Panettiere enters from left. enters from left, in front of a poster that reads "Hollywood Promises to Talk About It... You Will Too."

Hayden: You know, people with epilepsy may not say anything because they're afraid of how others will treat them. You can help change things by talking about it.

The platform goes into shadow as the nearby TV Monitor fades in to a close up of Seattle Panel footage; Greg Grunberg interviews Blanca Vasquez, MD of NYU Medical Center.

Greg: Why is it important to talk about epilepsy?

Blanca Vazquez: It is so important because anyone can be affected with epilepsy. It could be a child. It could be an elderly parent. It could be a young adolescent that gets into a car accident that gets an infection. So epilepsy is something that's going to affect us, either at work, family, church, anywhere. You will meet someone that is affected with epilepsy. So, that's why we need to care.

Greg: And we need to talk about it.

Blanca: Yes.

Greg: And the more you're empowered, the more you know about epilepsy, the less frightened you'll be when you see someone have a seizure or you'll know what to do, the right thing to do?

Blanca: Absolutely.

TV monitor darkens, and station platform brightens again, lighting upon Hayden.

Hayden: I'm Hayden Panettiere... Thanks for Talking About It.

Hayden exits to the left, to the sound of an departing subway train and a throng of busy commuters.

Hayden Panettiere

(b. 1989, Palisades, NY)

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