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Kurt Eichenwald @kurteichenwald
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1. THIS is why I wrote my book, A Mind Unraveled, about living with intractable #epilepsy. @Netflix has a movie I wont name that has an ignorant & harmful depiction of a boy with epilepsy. @EpilepsyFdn has a statement saying the film "adds to the fear that exist about seizures"..
2...and "harkens back into the Dark Ages" and promote "ignorance and misunderstanding." Goddamit! We are NOT your entertainment, we are NOT freaks, we are NOT scary. We are your friends, your neighbors, sometimes your family. @Netflix: You owe us an apology. Take down the movie..
3...people with epilepsy face enough challenges without you making it worse, @netflix. EVERYONE in the media must learn about this condition before writing or talking about it. What you believe is probably wrong. Go to epilepsy.com & read my book about living with this
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1. This is 65th day tweeting about @NotreDame driving out a kid with epilepsy. I will not stop until they apologize.

The time has come to explain, why am I doing this? The kid & his family don't want to sue or return 2 ND. So is this about him or more?...statnews.com/2018/10/25/epi…
2...the answer is, it's both. It's about this single case of "James," whose life could be severely damaged by this. But it is also about calling attention to the reality for folks with #epilepsy. This happens...All. The. Time. Out of ignorance, people are scared of folks with....
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