Why are people afraid of epilepsy/epileptics?

Exactly what the title says. Why is epilepsy/epileptics so scary to people? Is it because epilepsy isn’t talked about? The only seizures you see in movies are so over the top and unrealistic?Why? I’m genuinely curious.

EDIT: I get that some like tonic clonic are scary and things like SUDEP are scary, but if you only have small seizures I don’t understand why people are so afraid