It sounds like a game show, but I could use the help.

My father suffered from epilepsy when I was young but refused to admit it. I remember being a kid when my father was driving a stickshift car down a hill. He took a seizure on the way down the hill in crowded traffic and I was stuck with him in the middle of the road until his seizure stopped. He told me he had a toothache. Never would this man admit that he had epilepsy.

What might this be about? Only thing that comes to mind might be that he was too proud to admit it or didn't want anything on a record that could hold him back some way.

Thanks