This article profiles Mike Simmel, a member of the Harlem Wizards professional basketball team and a national spokesman for Epilepsy Awareness. Mike has been diagnosed with epilepsy when he was two-years-old. At age seven, his father gave him a basketball to see if working with the ball would help him overcome his motor skills issues. Mike first learned of the social aspects of his disability at the age of 16 when he attended a basketball camp and had a seizure. He had been asked to leave but his father called the camp and insisted he stayed. Mike went on to finish the camp and later have a successful high school and college basketball career. However, it was that day at camp when he was asked to leave that truly changed Mike--and made him realize how many kids are missing out on valuable experiences because of their disabilities. He decided to do something about that. Throughout the past eight years, Mike has lectured and performed at over 350 basketball camps. As a national spokesman for Epilepsy Awareness, he speaks and performs annually at the Epilepsy Foundation of America's Kids Speak Up and U.S. Public Policy Institute in Washington. Mike has also created the Bounce Out the Stigma Program as a youth outreach campaign geared toward giving all children and young people a chance to learn using basketball as the primary vehicle to overcome obstacles in life.