Seven Year Old Italian Influencer Challenges Disability Stereotypes

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Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, embraces his mum Valentina Perniciaro after coming home from school, in Rome, Italy, October 22, 2020. Sirio Persichetti can't speak and can't feed himself but the seven-year-old has taken the social media world by storm with his daily antics, proving that a disability is no barrier to inspiring others. REUTERS/Yara Nardi

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Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, builds a house out of lego, as his mum Valentina Perniciaro rests beside him, in Rome, Italy, October 20, 2020. Sirio has spastic tetraplegia, a form of cerebral palsy that affects the movement of three limbs. REUTERS/Yara Nardi

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Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, lies down on a sofa at home with his mum Valentina Perniciaro, in Rome, Italy October 22, 2020. He is fed liquid nutrition through a tube in his stomach and has had a tracheotomy to help him breathe. REUTERS/Yara Nardi

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Paolo Persichetti, wearing a protective mask, holds his son Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, as they visit a health clinic to try his new hearing aid, in Rome, Italy, October 21, 2020. REUTERS/Yara Nardi

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Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, drives his toy car in the frontyard of his home in Rome, Italy, October 23, 2020. REUTERS/Yara Nardi

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Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, leaves school after a day of lessons in Rome, Italy, October 23, 2020. REUTERS/Yara Nardi

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