Epilepsy, also known as “sheep epilepsy”, is a chronic recurrent transient brain dysfunction syndrome characterized by abnormal brain neuron discharges causing recurrent epileptic seizures. Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, with a high disability rate, recurrent seizures and a long course, which seriously threatens the physical and mental health of patients (especially adolescent patients), preventing them from living, working and studying normally, affecting the quality of life of patients and their family members, and increasing the economic burden. What misconceptions about epilepsy do we tend to have in life? 1, convulsion is epilepsy: convulsion is one of the main symptoms of epilepsy, but not unique symptoms of epilepsy, other diseases can also cause convulsions, such as low calcium convulsions, hypoglycemia, pediatric hyperthermia convulsions, etc. are not part of epilepsy. And some types of epileptic patients do not have convulsion symptoms, such as aphasic seizures and psychomotor seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy. Therefore, convulsions cannot be equated with epilepsy. 2, convulsive movements are large seizures, small movements are small seizures: grand and small seizures of epilepsy are not distinguished by the magnitude of convulsive movements. A major seizure is a convulsion of the whole body and limbs, while a typical petit seizure refers to a loss of consciousness, a brief loss of consciousness, a pause in movement, and no convulsive action. Some patients or their family members refer to other forms of seizures other than generalized grand mal seizures as petit mal seizures, which is obviously inaccurate. The doctor must accurately typed according to the patient’s medical history and onset symptoms, and reasonably selected drugs, in order to achieve better results. For those who cannot be accurately typed, long-range video EEG can be used. The majority of patients have loss of consciousness at the onset of seizures, but some types of epilepsy, such as simple partial seizures, myoclonic epilepsy and other patients are clearly conscious at the onset of seizures. The diagnosis of epilepsy should not be denied because the patient has no loss of consciousness, and treatment should not be delayed. 4, epilepsy is hereditary, epileptic patients can not have children: most epilepsy is non-hereditary. The effect of epilepsy on the next generation is not 100%. However, from a eugenic point of view, it is best for epileptics to avoid marrying people with low convulsive thresholds (including epileptics and those with a history of febrile convulsions); in addition, epileptics should have children after their condition is stable and their seizures are basically controlled.