Dessidre Fleming: On How Her Disability Became Her Power
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat Down With Dessidre (pronounced as Dé -Zee-Ray) hails from Patna but now calls Delhi her home after living here for more than 15 years and securing a decent job in the city. She was born with one ear that caused the disfigurement of the right side of her face. However, what is written in a medical textbook is not a story Dessidre wished to write for herself; her willpower to turn her medical condition into her strength is heroic in the face of hatred she’d faced from society and her close ones. “As a child, I had all sorts of suggestions flowing in from people of non-medical background. While some wanted me to undergo surgeries, others forced me to use hearing aid machines. Eventually, they all gave up on me because I wouldn’t hear,”
