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HANDICAPPED FUTURE

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THE SITUATION OF PHYSICALLY
HANDICAPPED CHILDREN

IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC
OF GERMANY

There, you've almost got it.

Really tight, tight Susanne,
really tight!

There are a total of 4.5 million
handicapped people living in the FRG,

of those, 470,000
are school age children.

According to surveys,

the majority of the German citizens
don't want to live with them.

How are they living?
And where?

And what do we know about them?

What opportunities
does society give them?

Or is our behaviour towards them
perhaps an additional handicap?

- Dagmar, how old are you?
- Six.

- Have you started school already?
- Nursery school.

Well, I don't play very much
at home,

just a little bit.

But during sport in the afternoon,

I'm bored,

and then I paint
or play something.

Do you think about things a lot,
or what do you do,

for example in the afternoons?

In the afternoon

I just imagine things
for myself.

What do you imagine?

Well, something about...
also with Indians.

And... about walking...

if I could walk...

Yes, what would you do then?
What do you imagine?

Well, I would bring Richard
down to school.

You would bring Richard to school?

- Yes. Downstairs.
- Yes.

And then I would go and walk
up the stairs.

Because I'm afraid
to use the lift by myself.

So you would walk up
the stairs?

And what else would you do?

Well, go inside, and...

then either walk around,

or listen to records.

Well...

I don't exactly know...

Do you dream a lot?

Well, when my eyes are open, yes.

But afterwards, around five,
I run out of ideas to dream of.

So you don't dream much at night,
but during the day?

Yes, but... Yes, but then...

I can't think of anything
to dream of.

I don't notice it anyway.

And what do you dream about
during the day?

During the day?

Well, what I said before,
from the Indians and such.

- Do you have friends here?
- Yes.

- Who, what's his name?
- I think his name is Thomas.

- What makes him different to you?
- Hm...

He doesn't have any arms or feet.

Is what he has bad, or...?

- Yes, it's bad.
- Yes, they're disadvantaged.

But for you, he is just as much of a friend
as someone whose arms are long,

or is he someone
completely different for you?

It's hard to say, but...
he looks different.

But actually he's the same,
except for the arms, the short ones.

What do you think?

He... he is
almost the same as us,

only at birth he became different.

Do you think that that's bad,

or that it gives your friendship
a different meaning?

Yes, it's bad,
because they can't eat so well.

- I see.
- And they can't play well.

Have you had a lot of interaction
with physically handicapped children?

Yes.

Can you tell us something about it,
about your thoughts?

Yes, I even sit next to one at school.

And she's quite good
at gymnastics.

But our teacher always does things,

gives us things to do,
where she can't participate.

Sometimes yes,
but not most of the time.

And she is very, very good at writing.

If I want to, I can write, too,
but I don't write as well.

And dressing,

well, she needs a bit of help.

And otherwise...

she is quite good,
on the whole.

- Are you her friend?
- Yes.

In 1968, the Pfennigparade established
a community facility here in Munich,

where for the first time
an attempt was made

not to isolate physically handicapped
people in institutional homes,

but to house them together with
the healthy members of their families

in specially furnished apartments...

The complex includes an elementary
school and a secondary school,

medical facilities, a gym

and a workplace with computer facilities
from the Siemens Company.

A second such house is being
constructed adjacent to the first.

Gymnastic exercises are done here
to train balance.

For without arms,

the perception of the body and of balance
are completely different than we know it.

Turn around...
You stay seated, OK...

- Then I have to jump off...
- That's very good.

- But I've never done it before, have I?
- Oh, I think you have.

- Uh-uh...
- When you were smaller,

- I'm sure you did it.
- Oh yes, in... in the Kapuziner Street.

We try to stimulate the children
at least as much as in other schools,

actually I try to stimulate
them even more,

so that they are not later
employed on the basis of pity,

but on the basis
of their qualifications,

and therefore have a better chance
to somehow enter into an occupation.

And we have to see to it
that all the children learn an occupation,

because they can't just rely on pity
all their lives.

Hey, stop it... you jerk.

Dagmar, why would you like
to go to America?

- Because I want to see the Indians.
- Why the Indians?

- Because I want to see them in real life.
- Mm-hm.

Where have you seen them before?

- In movies.
- And what did they do?

- They captured Shatterhand.
- Really?

- And the son from Winnetou too.
- Imagine that, imagine that...

And what happened then?

Um... then there was the time...

where Winnetou
was supposed to die.

A-ha!

Yes and... and, er...
who is your favourite Indian?

- I would say Winnetou.
- Really?

And what else do you want to do
in America besides look at Indians?

Hm...

What would you do
if you saw an Indian?

- Not much.
- Not much?

What do you think that
the Indians look like today?

- What I think?
- Yes, what you think.

They still have a headdress
and feathers,

but they are just dressed
like the white people.

A-ha! So...

Today we have... I have brought you
some more nice things.

No, that's... that's a "Kalbste",
or something like that.

"Kalbe" or something...

Many practical things are
difficult to access for the children

due to their restricted
freedom of movement.

Therefore there is a class especially
for general knowledge in the school.

When asked, where potatoes
come from, one girl said,

"From the potato mine."

They have to first learn
what a pine cone,

a horseshoe
or a bank note is.

Oh, it's on the tip of my tongue,
it's on the tip of my tongue...

That's a pine cone.

- A fir cone.
- Oh yes!

Ho... ho... horseshoe
from a horse!

- Wow, Günter is right.
- I knew that too.

- You knew that?
- That's what I meant... you have to...

- Give it to me, I know where to put it!
- Well, then!

That, that has to go down there
on the feet, like that.

Like that...

And then you heat it up
and it gets welded,

they weld it,

and then something gets put on it,

and when it's finished,
then they put it,

they put it down somewhere.

And then they put it,
on the hands, and...

I mean on the horses, over them,

but actually,
that hurts them

- walking around barefoot.
- Good!

Do you think that
that is a hundred mark bill?

That... that... yes...

- Is this a hundred mark bill?
- Yes!

And can you buy something with it?

No, you can only buy something
with it in English.

- Only in English?
- Or in Africa, you can do it there...

In Africa?
Do you think, that that...

Just who is that there?
Do you think that this is our President?

- Yes.
- Yes?

Yes, that's him.
Look, he has a round face!

- He isn't for real!
- I have another one here.

What could that be?

A five hundred, a five hundred!

- A six hundred!
- What was that?

- A six hundred.
- Hundreds of?

Marks.

Is that so, you think that
that is so much money.

Can you tell us what you do
to take Monika out in public?

Yes, first of all,
we go shopping with her,

as well as that
we take her wherever we go,

we drive up to the mountains

or to the lakes with her
or take her into restaurants for lunch.

And above all,
we maintain contact with families

that have children with normal limbs

so that she grows up
amongst normal people.

And now she's going
to a swimming course.

And they were also in a skiing course,
Moni, Hansi and Helma,

three of the children
from the house,

the other children didn't participate
in the ski course.

Well, how do people react
if you ski without poles,

what do the people say
to you then?

Mostly the small children
around seven or six,

they come over and ask,
for example,

why don't we have
any poles and such.

And then we stand up for ourselves

and just say that
that's the way it is

and try to get rid of them.

Because they just bother us.

Can you tell us a little bit more
about the misconduct of outsiders?

Yes, especially when we go for a walk
or even in a shop, the people stare.

I think it's more the older ones,
the oldest generation even,

like around sixty or seventy,

not the forty-year-olds,

and that is of course
always very painful.

Yesterday I was, for example,
taking a walk with the two of them.

They didn't notice that Monika
didn't have any arms

because she was wearing a little cape.

Andrea was wearing a cape too,
but she had her arms out.

And I could notice that the people
were constantly staring at Andrea,

although Andrea is really such a nice,
delightful girl.

Well, and maybe they think
that Monika can't do anything,

I know that from one
of our neighbours,

who has often been asked
what Monika does all day long.

And she always said that she can do
this and that and whatever.

People maybe have the idea that
the children sit around the apartment

and can neither play
nor eat nor write.

So, does anyone need
anything else?

OK, the first self-portrait
is hanging on the wall.

- Who did that?
- Rudi.

Now we've hung it up.
Afterwards we'll think about who it is...

Mrs Gartenberg, what should I paint now?
I'm finished with my picture.

Oh, I've forgotten my hair.

Do you remember that we drew ourselves
already once last year?

- Mm-hm.
- The carnival picture? Yes?

How did you draw yourself there?
Today's picture is completely different.

In that picture I have a really.
I drew a really colourful patchwork skirt.

Yes, and how did you look,
how did you draw yourself?

I think that this picture is
very different from last year's picture.

I've painted it a bit more clearly now,

and the face,
I've done that very differently,

and I've made the hair very messy.

Well, the greatest
difference to last year,

is that it is more differentiated.

Last year,
she drew herself more babyish,

but with normally developed limbs

and she didn't leave out her toes.

Since then she has become
much more conscious

about her type of handicap,

and the toes have taken
on a greater importance.

The first self-portrait is hanging up,
everybody look here now!

Nice.

Who knows who this is?
- I... I... I know...

- Who is it, Robert?
- Rudi.

Rudi, what do you think
is very characteristic of yourself?

The hands.

Well, what is it especially
that you notice there?

Well, I only have three fingers
on one hand and four on the other.

Exactly. That's how I would have
recognised you too, right. Good.

Gitti, look at me.

Listen, you painted pictures
of yourselves today in art, right?

This girl painted
a picture of herself...

and then wanted the finished picture back
so that she could paint in some tears.

- Do you like it?
- Not bad.

You think it's not bad?

Do you think that the picture
looks like you? Yes?

The face is pink,
I can see that, yes.

And brown eyes, that's right too,
but what is the blue there?

Those are the tears.

Oh, those are the tears.

First you gave me the picture
without the blue.

Do you remember?
And then you wanted it back, right?

- Why did you paint tears on it?
- I don't know.

Why did you paint tears on it?

Is there a reason?

When you go away from home,
then you cry sometimes.

Did you go away
from home recently?

Were you home on the weekend?

Were you thinking about it?

I have some of the pictures
from some of the children here,

where a big problem is noticeable,

namely the problem of isolation,
that the children feel of course.

For example here, this picture,
this is from an eleven-year-old girl.

She draws herself down here,
incidentally not handicapped,

but rather completely healthy,
but isolated from...

these are three fish here,
from life around her,

around which she draws a circle
to encapsulate it.

And I have a very interesting
picture here

from a ten year old boy.

He drew himself...

well, not himself, but a snake
behind bars, in prison.

And he told me, when I asked him
what the meaning was,

he said, "That's a boy
that the snake just gave birth to."

And the bars in front
show how he feels.

He just feels as if he is imprisoned
through his physical handicap

and he feels isolated from the other
playmates, from the environment.

And the same child painted here, as well,
a prison in the rocky overhang.

This here is depicting a rocky overhang,
and this is the prison,

and there's nothing other than that
on the picture except his name, Robert.

His name, Robert, is up here.

It is always the same image
that is communicated by the children,

the isolation, the loneliness.

Hey Bodo, wait, catch me.

Bodo, too bad that I have
this apparatus on,

because if I didn't I could
show you my handstand.

Yeah?
Oh, too bad.

No, that won't work, I can't.

Or should I try it with the apparatus?

- It works!
- No, it doesn't...

The problem of isolation isn't
terribly noticeable on the playground.

The question remains, if the construction
of the community facility

can eliminate the isolation at all.

- How old are you, Kurti?
- I'm ten now. Ten years old, yes.

- He turned ten in August.
- On August 21st.

And how is it here,
how do your pals treat you?

- Well, none of my pals are here.
- Badly, from those his own age.

Only from the little ones,
from the little ones,

the second, third grade,
it's all right with them.

Those who are in his class,
they don't accept him at all.

They call him the little mashed guy,
or the electronic dwarf...

and give him other such names.

And that makes me angry.

He comes home often during the week
and tells me about these things.

And it makes me angry.

Do you go out, for example, with Kurti
maybe to a restaurant?

No, I haven't done that very often.

- Why not?
- Well, I'd rather avoid the excitement.

I'm a nervous wreck,

and I just can't take it,
it's too much excitement.

If I can avoid it,
I avoid it.

And why do you do that?

Well, like I said, the excitement,
the staring, the whispering.

You notice that
when you're sitting at a table

and the whole restaurant
is staring at you.

And then they whisper and gossip
and you know exactly why.

That upsets me.

Then I have to get up and go.
So I don't go there in the first place.

I'll say, "Let's go for a walk
this afternoon,

"today is a lovely day",
but he says no every time.

He says,
"No Mama, I won't go with you,

"because you get yourself
much too upset".

He goes with his sister
and with his brother.

He goes with them,
but not with me.

Because he wants to keep me
from getting upset,

he understands that, you know.
He wants to avoid that.

With me he doesn't go anywhere.

Do you suffer as a result?

Yes... terribly, terribly,
I'm already emotionally distressed.

Emotionally I'm... it's ruined me.

Emotionally it has brought me...
to my wits' ends,

the way they react...

So, when you're out with Kurt
in the department store, for example?

Well, of course they could,

and there are some, if they had
enough tact, then they do it too,

but some of them,
they have none whatsoever.

- How does that manifest itself?
- How it manifests itself?

First of all, they stare at you directly,
and then they say something stupid to you.

Some of them come to you
with the stupidest things.

They say something dumb.

"Is that a Thalidomide child?" and
"Why did you take that stuff?"

That's what I have to listen to.

"I didn't take anything
while I was pregnant,"

and
"This child will blame you some day."

And so on, that's the kind of thing
you have to listen to.

- In front of Kurt?
- In front of Kurt.

They say it in front of Kurt.
Of course they say it.

Just don't listen to them.

"Don't listen to them"...
Of course I don't listen to them.

I have to plug my ears shut outside.
And then...

What about during the birth?

During the birth?
How he was born?

Well, I didn't see him at all.
They didn't show him to me at all.

They only told me briefly,
"The child is not properly developed."

I couldn't imagine
what they meant.

Then, they took him away
from the clinic.

And then for ten weeks,
until the end of October,

he stayed in the Lachner
Institutional Home.

And then I said, now I'll just try to see
if I can take the child myself.

If the treatment is quite difficult,
then you can still do it.

But everything went just marvellously,
just marvellously.

And then the winter came...

And why were you so shocked?

When I picked the child up from
the children's clinic to take him home,

and I hadn't seen him
once before then,

and I was all alone, abandoned,
completely alone,

and then you're supposed to take the child
out of the baby carriage,

and unbundle it,
and look at it or not.

And I thought hard about
whether to or not,

but there was no other choice.

I can't leave him in the baby carriage
all year long.

I have to take him out.

So I took him out and unbundled him
on the couch in the living room,

and I saw what happened to him.

Without anyone telling me anything
before or showing me the child.

I hadn't seen the child before
and it was a terrible shock.

And then I was happy
that it was winter

as the child could lie
in the baby carriage,

and you could cover him up
without anybody saying anything.

But then spring came

and you can't cover a child
up to its neck.

Did you try to hide him?

Yes, I did.
I never took him out.

I just kept him in the bedroom,
over by the window.

And then there was a social worker
who came to visit me every two weeks.

She looked after me very well.

And what about now?
Do you still try to hide Kurt?

Well, of course,
if I have to take him somewhere,

then I'm terribly nervous
when I go shopping,

because of the way
people stare and whisper.

Do you like to go on walks
with your mother

or going to a department store
or something?

Alone, yes.
I once went alone to Rewe.

He goes alone to Rewe.

But with Mama, well...

First of all, it's a long way
if I have to walk,

and secondly,
I don't like to go with the stroller

because the people stare and think,
"Oh! Such a big lad sitting in a stroller."

He sits in a baby carriage
and then they stare, don't they?

Yes, they stare.

And if I walk, then they can see it
with their own eyes that I can walk.

And then they once said,
"Aren't you ashamed?

"Such a big lad sitting
in a baby carriage?"

That was in the winter
and he was covered,

they didn't see the legs,

and someone said these dumb things
to us in passing.

Aren't you ashamed?

Such a big lad and you let yourself
be pushed in a baby carriage!

He was shocked.

He pulled back his head
and closed his eyes,

he was so shocked
at what the man had said.

And I thought to myself,
"My God, what a stupid idiot!"

I thought, if you only knew why,
you wouldn't be asking me.

I can't wear a sign around my neck
that explains why.

And that's why I avoid going out
with him if I can.

Mrs Hennes, can you tell us
a little bit about Dagmar?

Yes, Dagmar was born
with a double femur fracture

and was brought directly to the clinic,
the children's clinic.

And Dagmar came home,
quite a while ago,

when she was two and a half
or almost three,

and was completely frightened,
spoke very little,

was afraid of strangers

and screamed during the night
without any apparent reason,

and it took my husband and I
quite a lot of patience and effort

to slowly explain to the child
that she was now in an environment

where she wouldn't have any more pain,

where she would be cared for gently,

where she would also be loved
and not just tended to,

which was also very important.

We immediately told both children,
Richard and Dagmar,

as soon as they were aware
of their handicap,

what was wrong with them,

how the chances are,

so that they were able to learn
quickly to live with their handicap.

Especially in order...

to give them
a positive outlook on life,

so that they learn to get around
in spite of their handicap.

They have family duties,

they help me,
they wash the dishes by themselves.

They're able to do that here,
dry them and help clean up,

and they keep their rooms tidy.

We think that it's
absolutely necessary

that they have duties
and responsibilities within the family,

because, if you didn't demand
anything of them,

then you'd be bringing them up
to be inactive in a wheelchair.

We've just spoken about
the handicapped environment.

It seems as if the handicapped
practically belong to a group.

Yes, it shouldn't be like that.

In my opinion, the illness should be
treated as a secondary matter.

Especially so, because
the illness in itself...

well, it debilitates one, in that
it isn't possible to run so quickly

and you have to take care of your
health more than others, perhaps.

But I think that is
completely secondary,

because a physically
handicapped person, in my opinion,

is just as capable at work
or in life as anyone else.

And education
should be carried out accordingly.

And what is being done
wrong here?

It's miserable for the physically
handicapped in other places as well.

But I think that it's the same everywhere,
because I was in another institution,

and I'd say it was
almost worse there.

Ludwig, can you tell us
about this film project, please?

Yes, we had the idea,

or rather, I had the idea
and suggested it to the others,

that we should steal something from
Wertkauf or another department store

and simultaneously film it.

And we wanted to show

how people react to
the physically handicapped.

Like, that they aren't considerate,
and at best stare at them and say,

"Look at the poor fools,"
or make other stupid comments.

And why didn't you
make the film?

Well, I can't film
and steal at the same time,

and the others wouldn't do it.

Well, even if people had noticed
our little theft action,

I don't think that they would
come over to us

and say, "What have you taken there?"
or something.

They're constantly surrounded
by an invisible barrier,

and they have to somehow
overcome themselves

before they can
speak with us at all.

And I think, that with cheaper things
that could be stolen,

they would, if they even noticed,
pay absolutely no attention to it.

With more expensive things,

they'd get caught up
in a moral dilemma with themselves.

Pity might play a role,
but it's not only pity.

They just don't know
enough about us,

or they think that we're abnormal.

Since we're always kept in institutions.

That's why we seem abnormal,
because it's so seldom that we get out.

It's like when the crazies
are on leave.

"Why don't you address the
chemical factory that sold Thalidomide

"without having tested it beforehand.

"Here's where
the really guilty ones are,

"for whom the taxpayers
have to pay now.

"Besides...

"Euthanasia would be a blessing for the
poor creatures that have been affected,

"they would be released
from their suffering

"that cannot be considered
a life worth living.

"A friend of humanity."

- What do you think about that?
- A great friend of humanity...

How is that anything to do
with being a friend of humanity

if you want to kill
another human being?

- Or if you want to "humanely"...
- ...put them out of their misery.

Have you come up against something
like this often, an attitude like this?

Yes, quite often.

Hansi has a good example,
he was there...

Yes, that was at Sonnenzug,

Georg had a respirator.

He had difficulty breathing.

And there was a paramedic standing
in the doorway and he says to a nurse,

"Oh, those poor ones,
it would be better if they met a quick end

"before they have to suffer so much."

And he said it so loud
that Georg could hear it. He did, too.

In order to find a future that
isn't made more difficult by society,

a physically handicapped person
must sometimes go as far as California.

Living there is the young
German scientist, Adolf Ratzka,

who contracted polio at 17
and spent several months in an iron lung.

Even today he uses an artificial
respirator at night.

Nevertheless, different attitudes
and technological aides make it possible

for him to work as a Scientific
Assistant specialized in Social Sciences

at the State University of California.

He's currently working in the
state redevelopment programmes.

The handicapped have been
integrated here,

and all of the public buildings
are accessible with ramps.

The doorways have no thresholds,

and there are small ramps
throughout all of the sidewalks.

This is Adolf Ratzka's room
in a student dormitory.

His roommate overtakes the work
of washing and dressing him.

Otherwise, Adolf Ratzka
is practically independent.

The attitude towards a physically
handicapped person here

is substantially more
unprejudiced than in Germany.

A handicapped person
is accepted here,

and he lives together with others

just like someone who might
have broken a leg in our country.

This is the respirator that is
hooked up during the night.

During the day, breathing
is a conscious activity.

Purely structurally,
I would say...

that maybe because the country
and the city here are younger,

than for example Munich,
where I was previously,

that there is an absence
of architectural obstructions

like the ones I found in Munich.

The houses here don't have any
pompous stairways for the most part,

public buildings
all have elevators,

and in publicly
sponsored buildings,

facilities for wheelchair users
are mandatory.

What I noticed here was

that the Americans,
as far as I've got to know them,

confront the matter of disability
with a much more objective attitude.

You don't sense pity

or Christian mercy here -
thank God.

In this achievement-oriented society

one is judged
by what one can do.

In my opinion -
besides the purely physical things

like therapy and technical aids

such as wheelchairs,
electric wheelchairs and above all cars -

the most important thing is to give the
handicapped a goal that they can achieve.

Another case, that I am not familiar
with personally, but through my work,

is a professor at
the University of Wisconsin

who is so paralysed

that he has to turn the pages of his books
with a long wooden stick

that he holds in his mouth.

And I've been told
that it looks pretty wild

when he swirls through the pages
with this wooden stick,

surrounded by his assistants.

He teaches,
he is active in research,

appears often at conferences

and in addition,
he is a businessman

who runs a successful
building company.

Whether integration with
an achievement-oriented society

should be the only worthwhile goal,
is questionable, of course,

because there are many
who cannot or will not achieve this.

This is Adolf Ratzka's car.

A technology class reconstructed
a normal delivery car for him

as their term project.

And it is now simple to rebuild
from the applied basic concept.

Now I'm going to fasten my wheelchair
into my car,

so that I don't slide
while I'm driving.

I drive the car completely
with my hands,

all of the controls
are up here.

And my left hand is
somewhat weaker,

that's why I drive
with the right hand.

I have very sensitive
power steering.

With the left hand
I can control the brakes,

this turning movement
is the brake.

Here, on the manometer,

I can read the respective pressure level
that still remains.

This here is the accelerator.

I have an automatic clutch.

Very simple.

Up here is the horn.

Down here is a shortwave radio,

just in case the car breaks down
and I need help.

I can contact amateurs
on the same channel.

And here is the key.

On the Los Angeles Highway,

Adolf Ratzka is indistinguishable
from any other driver on the road.

Here in California he has been granted
mobility and social participation.

In ten years, this girl
will be twenty years old.

Only, the way things are,
her future prospects look rather bleak.

It will probably take a long time
until the Federal Republic of Germany

attains a status that is
generally achieved in the USA,

because it is less an issue of means
and more an issue of alternative thinking.

Until then, we will only be able
to offer handicapped children

a handicapped future.