Hit by a car and dragged, she didn’t scream: Meet Olivia Farnsworth, who feels no pain or hunger

Hit by a car and dragged, she didn’t scream: Meet Olivia Farnsworth, who feels no pain or hunger

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She was hit by a car and dragged about half the length of a football field. Seven-year-old Olivia Farnsworth did something almost unimaginable, even if it were a superhero movie.She didn’t scream.When the car finally stopped, witnesses say she got up as if nothing had happened. No tears, no wailing, and no emotion. She simply walked up to her mother.Olivia Farnsworth, a UK girl who is now a teenager, has one of the rarest genetic conditions known to medical science: a chromosome 6 deletion, which prevents her from feeling pain, hunger, or tiredness.

The bionic girl

Olivia Farnsworth made headlines after the 2016 accident. She was dubbed ‘bionic’ after her calm response to the tragic accident. Her genetic condition is so unique that she may be the only person in the world with these symptoms.Doctors were baffled when they realised that the girl felt no pain following a nearly fatal accident. She barely eats or sleeps. She can stay awake for three days straight and still feel no tiredness. She has ‘no sense of danger’ either.According to her mum, Niki, Olivia had quite a different persona from childhood. She didn’t cry or grow any hair.
Soon, she became a fussy eater. She ate nothing but butter sandwiches for a year.“She got run over and dragged down the street by a car, and she didn’t complain. She was dragged about ten car lengths down the road. It was horrendous; I don’t think it’s something I will ever get over,” her mum told Yorkshire Live earlier.Recalling the accident, her mum added, “I was screaming and all my other children were screaming as she ran out. But Olivia was just like, ‘What’s going on?’. She just got up and started walking back to me. The hospital said she’s bionic. Because of the impact, she should have had severe injuries.”She had tyre marks on her chest and no skin on her hip.“To look at Olivia, you don’t know anything’s wrong with her. I want people to know and to stop judging,” Niki, who wants to raise awareness of the condition, added. “She’ll be the first to share her sweets with you. She’s got the best personality. She’s just crazy, but in a good way. 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!’.
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