Letters to the Editor: Despite what you see on TV, narcolepsy isn’t a funny punchline

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A writer with narcolepsy criticizes the L.A. Times for portraying the neurological disorder as a comedic trait in its ‘Stumble’ review.

Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological disorder causing sleep disruption, muscle weakness, hallucinations and sleep paralysis — not the comical falling asleep depicted in media.

Media stereotypes delay diagnosis: the writer waited 19 years for answers partly because Hollywood portrayals didn’t match her actual symptoms.

To the editor : I didn’t expect to open the Los Angeles Times and find my disability used as a punchline. But there it was, in its review of “Stumble”: Davis passes out funny” ( “‘Stumble,’ NBC’s cheerleader mockumentary, gives yo