Channel: Naked Stories

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Description: Adam Pearson has neurofibromatosis type 1, a condition that causes benign tumours to grow on nerve endings, in his case, on his face. Throughout his life Adam has experienced disability hate crime first hand. In this documentary, Adam is on a mission to explore disability hate crime; to find out why it goes under reported, under recorded and under peoples’ radar. Adam looks to uncover what attitudes and influences may be causing people to commit disability hate crime in the first place, questioning whether the portrayal of disfigurement and disability in the media, for example, could be leading us to associate them with being ‘the bad guys’. With help from Miles Hewstone, professor of social psychology, University of Oxford, Adam conducts an experiment measuring peoples’ innate prejudice towards disfigurement that gives some shocking results, and leads him to question if he alone can hope to affect a change – and if so, how? Medical and Health Stories from around the globe: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3zXc9CZLeRu8ZZD0J76v0bZP7a3F6iUa Facebook: facebook.com/NKDStories For any enquiries, please contact us at info@passiondistribution.com