16/05/2022
This week isFace Equality Week! A time to celebrate visible difference, challenge people’s perceptions and raise awareness about the prejudice experienced by too many people with scars, marks and conditions that make them look different.This years theme is staring.
This week are launching the campaign after new research, carried out for Changing Faces by SavantaComRes, found that people with visible differences have experienced:
- An increase in hostile behaviour when they go out in public, with a rise from a third (34%) in 2019, to over two in five (43%) in 2021.
- A negative impact on mental health and wellbeing, with half of respondents (51%) reporting they have felt self-conscious or embarrassed as a result of their visible difference.
- Feeling isolated and lonely because of their visible difference, reported by a quarter (25%) of respondents.
- Being stared at, when people with a visible difference do go out, three in ten (28%) report this happens to them.
explains the impact of staring and shares great advice to help stop staring before it happens.
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