Oliver Bromley has a genetic condition that causes non-cancerous tumours to grow on nerves.

A man with a facial disfigurement says he was asked to leave a restaurant in south London because staff said he was “scaring the customers”.

Oliver Bromley has Neurofibromatosis Type 1, a genetic condition that causes non-cancerous tumours to grow on his nerves.

Speaking to the BBC, he said when he had gone to place an order at a restaurant in Camberwell, staff told him there had been complaints about him.

“It’s a horrible thing to happen. I took it very personally on the day,” he said.

  • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
    372·
    2 months ago

    This looks nothing at all like measles, to even bother the person enough to ask such a ridiculous question is revolting.

    • Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.winEnglish
      327·
      2 months ago

      Yes, yes we all know everything you wouldn’t do is repugnant. Must be nice. I am not a doctor, and 99% of the population isn’t either. This could also be that new pox variant gathering steam. Point is, you see something like this reminiscent of a serious and contagious illness, in an eatery, and there are reasonable concerns for the public beyond politeness.

      Like, someone walking in to a restaurant coughing like crazy with hollow eyes and pale skin wouldn’t trigger any alarms? Be realistic.

      • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
        142·
        2 months ago

        and there are reasonable concerns for the public beyond politeness.

        No, there are not.

        This is a seriously fucked annd irrational attitude to hold.

          • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
            152·
            2 months ago

            This is real life, right now. Lemmy doesn’t exist in a different reality, everyone you are talking to here is a real person in real life.

            And it is very fucked up. It’s the sort of hateful shit one would expect from a right winger.

            • Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.winEnglish
              117·
              2 months ago

              everyone you are talking to here is a real person in real life

              How delightfully naive.

              Nothing f’d up about at all. Very left wing to put the well being of many over those of the few or one. Seriously, maybe come down from that pedestal and actually learn a thing or 2 about what you discuss before assuming your self-righteousness.

              • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
                142·
                2 months ago

                Your irrational hatred and fear of people who have facial disfigurements does not protect people.

                There is zero others wellbeing defended by your response because no one is at risk from this, you are only hurting another human by excluding them from society.

                • Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.winEnglish
                  115·
                  2 months ago

                  This isn’t about the disfigurements. It’s about having prominent symptoms of a possible contagion. Honestly getting annoyed at the prevalence of illiteracy in a primarily text medium. I have no hatred and have expressed concern for the poor man in the first comment or have you forgotten already, or skipped it in your eagerness at the opportunity to white knight a straw man?

                  If someone entered the eatery you were at coughing so badly they could barely speak you wouldn’t be the least bit concerned? '‘just put an earplug in’! lol

                  • BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world
                    131·
                    2 months ago

                    Not the person you were talking too, but I think where you’re losing people is that no one else is looking at his face and thinking “measles”…there is a picture in the article and that’s not what measles looks like…at all. In any way. Your continued insistence that it “might be contagious” when no reasonable person would come to that conclusion really makes it look like your trying to use an excuse to be uncomfortable with the guy for daring to be in public.

                    Also stop trying to equate this with coughing. No one whose made it to adulthood thinks this guy has any sort of contagious pox, that not what they look like and it doesn’t take a doctor to know that.