disfigurement

A man with a facial disfigurement says he was asked to leave a restaurant in south London because staff said he was "scaring the customers".

“People are made uncomfortable by disfigurement and, therefore, they're made uncomfortable by films about disfigurement,” he said to Salon.

As he got older, he saw how movies routinely depicted people with disfigurements as freaks, villains or victims, stripping away their humanity.

It can cause disfigurement and paralysis, and is potentially fatal.

Evans said she suffered severe and permanent burns to her body along with nerve damage and disfigurement.