Nov. 14, 2025 5:30 AM PT
To the editor: I didn’t count on to open the Los Angeles Instances and discover my incapacity used as a punchline. However there it was, in its evaluate of “Stumble”: Davis passes out humorous” (“‘Stumble,’ NBC’s cheerleader mockumentary, gives you something to root for,” Nov. 7).
As a comedy author and individual dwelling with narcolepsy, I can let you know — there’s nothing humorous about it.
Narcolepsy isn’t a unusual behavior. It’s a continual neurological dysfunction that disrupts the mind’s skill to control sleep and wake cycles. It causes an intense want for sleep, muscle weak spot triggered by emotion, hallucinations and terrifying sleep paralysis. It doesn’t trigger individuals to fall backward, unconscious, mid-sentence, as proven in “Stumble.”
I spent 19 years blaming myself for exhaustion I couldn’t clarify. Once I was lastly identified, I informed my physician, “That may’t be proper, I’ve by no means fallen asleep right into a bowl of soup.” As a result of that’s what the media taught me narcolepsy regarded like. The Instances’ evaluate didn’t problem that stereotype; it bolstered it.
Lindsay Scola, Marina del Rey
