APearson dam is a British actor known for his role in the 2013 film ‘Under the Skin‘. The 39-year-old has received wide recognition in Hollywood for fighting and portraying disability in world cinema.
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Pearson graduated from University of Brighton with a Bachelor of Business Administration and although his time in the world of entertainment happened a few years ago, when he was chosen to take part with Scarlett Johansson in Jonathan Glazer’s film, ‘Under the Skin’, he remained a symbol of action.
The actor called ‘deformed, monster or mutant’, due to a rare genetic condition which greatly affected his physical appearance, which is why he used his fame to work on the stigma of disability.
Adam Pearson describes himself as a survivor of public hatred, rejection due to his unusual disease: neurofibromatosis.
The Mayo Clinic states that Neurofibromatosis is a genetic condition that causes changes in skin pigmentation and tumors in nerve tissue. He suggests that this condition is a genetic disorder of the nervous system that affects the way cells grow and form and causes tumors in the nerves.
The actor’s rare genetic condition caused thick tumors to grow all over his face, a condition similar to the one seen in the movie ‘The Elephant Man’.
Pearson has said he’s getting used to it living with neurofibromatosis, but every time he goes out on the streetspeople can’t take their eyes off him, because many of them are ‘weird’, others make fun of him and there are people who feel sorry for him.
In addition, in an interview with the ‘BBC’, he declared that it is not a new thing for him, since he was very young. He was rejected at his school, where he feared “disability hate crimes” every day.
In an interview with ‘The Mirror’ Adam Pearson recalled that one of his classmates convinced him that a teacher would work on him in another room and when he entered he was attacked by his classmates.
“I went home with saliva all over my jacket. It was terrible,” he recalled, making sure the only consolation was counting the weeks until the next holiday. “‘There are only seven days left,’ he said. [mi madre]and I woke up every morning in fear of the hours that awaited me.”
Neurofibromatosis is caused by mutations in certain genes. These mutations can be inherited from parents or can occur spontaneously.
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