Five year old Olivia smiling few hours after she was run over by a car

Girl,7, is ‘made of steel’

Meet Olivia Farnsworth, a British girl who does not feel any pain and never feels the need to eat or sleep.

At age seven, she is able to go for days without sleeping and eating, and comes away from terrible injuries with indifference.

In fact, she was recently run over and dragged down the street by a car, but she casually walked away from the accident without shedding a tear.

Olivia has doctors baffled. They know she suffers from a condition caused by something called chromosome 6 deletion, but this is the first time they have witnessed anyone displaying three rare symptoms at once.

According to her motherNiki Trepak, the little girl has no sense of danger because she literally cannot feel pain, and neither does she feel the need to sleep or eat. Her doctors have nicknamed her ‘bionic girl’, while her mother says she is“made of steel.”

Although she is a happy child most of the time, Niki says that Olivia can suffer from violent outbursts from

 

“She’s head-butted me, punched and kicked me and can have outbursts of swearing which can be embarrassing if we are out in public,” the mother-of-five said.

Everybody laughs because she’s so wild and extreme. She says let’s jump off here and all the other children are like, ‘That’s way too high!’”

“This is why I want to raise awareness on chromosome 6 problems. To look at Olivia you don’t know anything’s wrong with her.”

 

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