Changing Faces Survey- What is your attitude to facially disfigured people?

[FairLadyRantALot]

Hi, just did this survey myself and thought others might be interesting in taking it themselfs.
It's a survey which will "test" your attitude towards people with a facial disfigurement.
survey here

Have just completed it and agree it was interesting.

interesting . I got a positive

my results were "neutral"...but that must have been because, well, I generally don't believe that having a disfigurement will make you a better or worse person....if that makes sense....I suppose having a slight disfigurement myself, I know that I am just a person as anyone else...

But the general attitude towards disfigurement is sadly so negative as can be seen at the end...it didn't surprise me, just thought it was sad!

Changing Faces are amazing. I use some of their resources in a GCSE Drama unit. It really gets teenagers thinking.

Off to look at the survey: thank you.

I got a positive.

But perhaps I am biased as one of the most outgoing, chatty, happy mums at dd's school has a facial disfigurement. But despite this, (or perhaps because of it if that makes sense?) she is very very attractive.

i got aspositive as it is possible to get but i felt that a lot of my answers were negative tbh.

my results were positive - I expect because I come across people with facial disfigurement a lot through work so that has probably minimised any prejudice I may have had prior to that.

i think everyone's getting a neutral or positive...

Well, tbh Maurice, I would doubt that....
But, I suppose the general attitude towards such issues on mn might be different anyway, to that of the national average....

I got a very positive. But I'm not sure I quite understand how the reaction time thingy actually works out if negative or positive. Then again, I have had a very bad week and my brain feels rather like mashed potato, so I may just be being even more dim than usual.

I don't think it was a survey as such. It was an exercise in getting your brain to accept an image of a facially disfigured person as a positive thing.

The questions at the end were very ambiguous and a bit flannely.

I think it was designed to make you think, rather than for information gathering purposes..

(I do on-line questionnaires to earn a bit of pocket money and this was like no survey I have ever come across )

Still, it worked

I was right at the top of the positive too. I found the last questions difficult to answer as surely everything depends on the individual. Impossible to generalise...or maybe that was the point?!

I do voulntary stuff for this organisation in our area. it is difficult to escape stereotypes - and also from people assuming that you are either stupid or deaf if you have something "different" about the way you look or your speech.

sorry bout the typo on 'voluntary'

I was strongly positive, but I don't really know why as I left all the sliders right bang in the middle as I couldn't see why there would be a diff between people with FDs would be any different from the rest of population - some people are nice, some are nasty.

I couldn't really understand the point of the button pressing bit either - particularly as at one point you were associating negative words with FDs, which just seemed to me to be counter-productive.

so, all those on positive, did you at the question part put all the "positive" levers on...because I left mine at level....like I said....I know myself and having a "disfigurement" does not mean I will be happier or more positive and whatever....it still just means that well....I am who I am...oh, not sure I am making sense here...it is just that I don't react more positive or negative to others by the way they look, but more by their behaviour!

the picture thing and word thing got me a couple of times, completely unrelated of whichever way they put it, lol...so, not sure how that works!

me too, my sliders always balanced, because it was all so nebulous... actually i think it was a bit of a waste of time tbh.

I got a neutral. I suspect this is because I gave the scores at the end anywhere between 5&7. You just can't score every person the same, can you? Some people are nice, some are not. Some are happy, some are not. Some are confident, some are not. So you have to come up with an average.

gigglewitch...I used to get that when I was younger and my cleft lip/palate was more obvious...people speaking slower/louder to me or treating me like I am not there and talking to whomever I was with.
I suppose nowadays people don't always realise and they treat me "normal" whatever that is!

Fairy. I got the highest positive possible to get (not boasting honest )
I left some of my sliders where they were, moved some slightly into the negative and moved just over half of them into positive.
Tried to be as honest as possible, but found the questions very subjective..

same as marthasmama and agree with her post

Came out as positive. Bot sure how the letter pressing equates all this though.

FLRA - that is exactly who i am talking about
i had cleft palate and other syndrome issues at birth, so many of my friends from early life have cleft lip and palate. incredible that we are still treated so oddly

hm...it must be working somehow, lol....

although I still thing that pic/word one where you press m or z is kind of a cognitive game...omg....I probably made to many mistakes, sigh....
I am really rubbish at those kind of "games" and tend to react before my brain really goes through the message given, iykwim