Amit Ghose is a 35-year-old man from Birmingham, England, who was born with neurofibromatosis type 1, a genetic disease that causes benign tumors to grow along the nerves and has caused him significant facial disfigurement, including the surgical loss of his left eye at age 11.
Despite having learned to accept his face thanks to his wife’s love, the discrimination has not ceased in his adult life, as demonstrated by the humiliation he recently suffered in a café in London, where the manager told him “oh, we don’t serve anymore” while continuing to serve other customers who stared at him, “as if they had seen a ghost”.
Today Amit has transformed his pain into purpose, dedicating himself to giving motivational talks in schools, publishing a children’s book called “Born Different” and sharing his story on TikTok, but the memory of the rejection in the café drives him to keep fighting so that no other child has to go through what he went through.
