Aimee’s story: “Self-acceptance is the key”
Sharing her experience of having psoriasis with her friends and online communities has helped Aimee embrace her skin and learn to love herself.
Read or listen to real stories from people affected by visible difference, their parents and families, as well as Changing Faces staff and volunteers. Inspired to share your story? We’d love to hear it – share your story now.
Sharing her experience of having psoriasis with her friends and online communities has helped Aimee embrace her skin and learn to love herself.
Florence faced plenty of difficulties in school due to her ptosis, but now sees how her visible difference has made her stronger.
Changing Faces campaigner Shannon shares what it took to embrace her birthmark and how social media has been helpful.
Support from family has meant Peter has always been comfortable in his own skin and feels positive about his visible difference.
Despite a lack of role models and supportive social media groups when he was growing up, Olu now owns his visible difference.
Confronting the harmful attitudes towards visible difference helped Ryan see disfigurement as a legitimate part of who he his.
Naomi explains how our online peer group chat helped her talk to people who have had similar experiences with visible difference.
With her family and employer’s support, Emma embraced her Bell's palsy and helps others feel better about their visible differences.
Opening up helped Sabira feel more confident about her eczema and showed her the importance of discussing visible differences.
Bianca developed keloids as a teenager, but with the support of a positive online group, she learned to love her visible difference.
Meeting people with visible differences helped Changing Faces campaigner Eleanor open up about her port wine stain birthmark.
Kiri has alopecia, and when her daughter Paiva also started losing her hair, it pushed her to accept their visible differences.