Activist Phyllida Swift says Halloween costumes shouldn't include a fake scar.
At 22, Swift was in a car wreck that left her with a facial scar. On her first Halloween after the accident, kids told her she looked scary.
"For someone to don a scar for a night and say, 'Isn't this scary? I would never want to look like this.' They can take that off at the end of the night," Swift, who runs a charity for people with facial deformities, said. "Someone with a facial difference is going to be living with that forever." "I just starred in a short film," she said, "where there was an animated character attached to my character, and the scar lights up. It looks a bit like a lightning bolt. It's almost like my superpower."
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