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Prosopometamorphopsia (PMO [1]), also known as demon face syndrome, [2] is a visual disorder characterized by altered perceptions of faces. In the perception of a person with the disorder, facial features are distorted in a variety of ways including drooping, swelling, discoloration, and shifts of position.
Jennifer White-Johnson is an artist and activist living in Baltimore, Maryland, US. [1] As a disabled Afro-Latina artist with ADHD and Graves' Disease she uses graphic design and photography as a means to discuss the intersection of disability rights and anti-racism, and to give visibility to misrepresented voices. [1]
A disability may be readily visible, or invisible in nature. Some examples of invisible disabilities include intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, mental disorders, asthma, epilepsy, allergies, migraines, arthritis, and chronic fatigue syndrome. [1]
Brown's first book, The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love, with Me, published by Atria Publishing Group, is a collection of personal essays/stories in which she relates to popular culture, beauty and body image, romantic love, and physical pain as a black woman with both cerebral palsy [8] (a physical disability) and invisible disabilities.
Yet people with disabilities have been marginalized and misunderstood for generations." According to the CDC, 27 percent of the US population has some kind of disability — that's one in four people.
About Category:People with mental disorders and related categories: This category's scope contains articles about People with mental disorders, which may be a contentious label. Subcategories This category has the following 19 subcategories, out of 19 total.
Lew Dockstader Bert Williams, shown here in blackface, was the highest-paid African-American entertainer of his day.. This is a list of entertainers known to have performed in blackface makeup, whether in a minstrel show, as satire or historical depiction of such roles, or in a portrayal of a character using makeup as a racial disguise, for whatever reason.
The law also created propaganda against people with disabilities; people with disabilities were displayed as unimportant towards progressing the Aryan race. [ 12 ] In 1939 Hitler signed the secret euthanasia program decree Aktion T4 , which authorized the killing of selected patients diagnosed with chronic neurological and psychiatric disorders.