This happened to my son at Uni. He feel asleep whilst waiting for his girlfriend to come out of her lecture, only to wake up to find other students posing with him and taking photo's with their phones. They thought it very funny! My son joined in the joke ( only thing he could do), but you do wish people could be a bit more mature and have more understanding. But if the shoe was on the other foot, who knows what my son would have done. I guess he would assume like anyone else that the person had been out partying the night before, and therefore i suppose you could see the funny side of it. But it still hurts I'm sure!

it has happened to me alot, and my cataplexy is quite sever, so that happens in public alot too... but yeah, ther is one person i know, who has a habit of actually being right in my face and being all jolly and excited.. scarey. xxx

I know what you mean. I fell asleep at work quite a bit. I was lucky in the respect that my co-workers had quite a good sense of humour. They thought I drank too much, smoked weed and lived some kind of party lifestyle. Yeah right...I wish. It's sad that I was prepared to accept this label rather than they know the truth. It was a huge step for me to admit (to myself and others) that I had a 'disabling' condition.................................................

I don't think I would stand and stare if the situation were reversed. I guess it would depend on how I felt about the person. I'm generally very compassionate as far as health issues go. Some people are so insensetive and ignorant, it's sad.......................................................

When I was at college it was the same deal, everyone thought I was a stoner. Young adults in their early twenties are the worst. So judgemental, and to some degree thoughtless, especially guys. I used to get really annoyed because I knew a lot of people that actually were real hard drug users. I figured if I didn't have the problems I do I sure as hell wouldn't be abusing my body like that. I guess it's easy to say that in hindsight, peer pressure is hell.

this happens to me a lot especially on public transport. i can't get on a bus without falling asleep. its really unnerving waking up to people staring at you, then they hold loud discussions about whether you're drunk or just lazy. my husbands great though he holds a loud discussion back about how ignorant people can be. i can't help but be amused when they start getting embarrased and don't know where to look.

The family went to Las Vegas last year. We stayed at the Rio. Son went out securty showed up. After that it seamed like this guy would be around every time he went out to assits or was hanging around just being their. We were there for three days. Were going again in June for another conference I wonder if they have him on file.

I am in SCA ( a medieval reenactment group), recently at an event I went down and when I came to I was heated, even though I clearly had a "OMG" sticker (it lets them know the medic on site has info on me) no one called them, they just shook and pinched me, by the time some one who knew me got there I had slipped deeper off from the stress of not being able to tell the people that I was awake. The running joke between me and my friends is that 22 yr old with narc. and 2yr old have somethings in common they need a babysitter.