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15. Bethel near Bielefeld, Germany was sort of similar for people with epilepsy, as well as

Sun Nov 16, 2014, 11:24 AM

Nov 2014

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people with mental health issues, but minus all the camera monitors. People could lead normal lives there knowing that if they had an epileptic episode, people all around them - the bus driver, the store clerk, a passerby - would not be alarmed and would know how to assist. The town had been functioning that way since the mid 1800's.

(We lived in Bethel in the mid sixties while my father was working with thalidimide children and their families all over Europe)

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