“Alien, Extraordinary and the Bionic Girl.” With these words they refer to Olivia Farnsworth, a girl with a special condition characterized by not showing a feeling of pain or hunger and no desire to sleep.

For more than six years, she and her mother have been confronted with the strange medical case. The little girl, now 13 years old, survived an impressive road accident in 2016.

The way she reacted alerts doctors to her unusual circumstances.

What is going on? asked Olivia after the accident

Olivia, Clarín reported on May 8, 2023, “became famous in Huddersfield (England), a town between Manchester and Leeds, when she was run over and dragged more than 20 meters by a car.”

Surprisingly, to the haunted look of those who witnessed the event, “he got up and asked his family, ‘What’s going on?’

The girl “had a tire mark (tires) on her chest from the accident and suffered burns to her hip and one toe.”

What has Olivia, the so-called bionic girl

Medical science tried to explain what happened: “Olivia was saved by not straining at the moment of impact. She stayed relaxed and that prevented fractures.”

In any case, the case of this girl is the only one known in the world, reports El Tiempo.

When she was treated at a health center for the accident, the doctors “realized that her response to pain and other stimuli was totally nil.”

His mother, Niki Trepak, said that “the chromosomal disorder makes him immune to pain and he has no sense of danger,” the medium reports, citing the Daily Mail.

She fell once and tore off her lower lip and said nothing.

Niki Trepak, mother of Olivia

Trepak stated in 2016 that his Olivia “never cried as a baby and didn’t nap during the day”.

“She’s been awake for three days and three nights and she has no interest in eating,” she said.

The condition, the Daily Mail added, also meant her hair didn’t grow properly until she was four years old.

She became a very picky eater. He lived on sandwiches for about a year.

Olivia’s mother to Daily Mail

To make him sleep, they thought it necessary to give him sleeping pills.

change in chromosome

According to some specialists, noted El Universal, Olivia is missing part of chromosome 6, a hitherto unrepeatable genetic change for which she has been nicknamed the “bionic girl.”

The major histocompatibility complex is located on chromosome 6 and is related to the body’s immune response.

“To many, complete monosomy 6, meaning the complete loss of that chromosome, is incompatible with human life, so Olivia must be missing only part.

According to El Tiempo, “This rare condition is called congenital analgesia and is believed to affect only 100 people on the entire planet, with at least one symptom: lack of sleep, hunger, or pain, but never all three.”

Experts “have established that a gene called SCN9A is generated by its absence, which plays an important role in the transmission of pain signals from the peripheral nerves to the brain. Those who suffer from this disease have a mutation that prevents pain signals from being expressed in the nervous system,” published El Universal.

In El Tiempo, they said about Olivia that she left public life in 2019 at the request of her mother. They lived in the United Kingdom.

However, they said he was known to develop “a rare mutation called ‘flatback syndrome’, which affects his ability to build muscle and fat tissue.”