{"id":11524,"date":"2026-06-03T10:25:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/?p=11524"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:25:01","slug":"they-refused-to-serve-me-in-a-cafe-because-of-my-face-man-with-neurofibromatosis-was-discriminated-against-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/?p=11524","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThey refused to serve me in a caf\u00e9 because of my face\u201d: man with neurofibromatosis was discriminated against in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having learned to accept his face thanks to his wife\u2019s love, the discrimination has not ceased in his adult life, as demonstrated by the humiliation he recently suffered in a caf\u00e9 in London, where the manager told him \u201coh, we don\u2019t serve anymore\u201d while continuing to serve other customers who stared at him, \u201cas if they had seen a ghost\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Today Amit has transformed his pain into purpose, dedicating himself to giving motivational talks in schools, publishing a children\u2019s book called \u201cBorn Different\u201d and sharing his story on TikTok, but the memory of the rejection in the caf\u00e9 drives him to keep fighting so that no other child has to go through what he went through.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-viral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11526,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524\/revisions\/11526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorssite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}