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.

Nurse Jenny, Valentina Perniciaro and Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, are seen at home, in Rome, Italy, October 23, 2020.

Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, holds hands with his caregiver Jing, in Rome, Italy, October 22, 2020.

Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, gestures while his older brother Nilo plays on his bed, in Rome, Italy, October 20, 2020.

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.

A drawing made by Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability is seen outside his room in Rome, Italy, October 20, 2020.

Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, plays on the balcony at his home in Rome, Italy, October 22, 2020.

Paolo and Nilo Persichetti, the father and the brother of Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, are seen in their home, in Rome, Italy, October 20, 2020.

Valentina Perniciaro looks at her son Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, as he plays with lego, in Rome, Italy, October 20, 2020.

Valentina Perniciaro helps her son Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, with his new hearing aid during a visit to a health clinic, in Rome, Italy, October 21, 2020.

Valentina Perniciaro, wearing a protective mask, holds her 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.

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.

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, in Rome, Italy, October 20, 2020.

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.

Clothes, shoes and leg braces belonging to Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, are seen at his home at the end of the day, in Rome, Italy, October 20, 2020.

The legs of Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, are seen next to his catheters, medicine and baby wipes, in Rome, Italy, October 20, 2020.

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.

Valentina Perniciaro and her son Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, are seen in the car with nurse Jenny, as they drive home from school, in Rome, Italy, October 20, 2020.

Valentina Perniciaro and her son Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, make typical Italian gestures as they leave school in Rome, Italy, October 20, 2020.

Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, is seen after coming home from school, in Rome, Italy, October 22, 2020.

Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, has his liquid lunch fed to him by his nurse, Jenny, through a gastrotomy tube, while he plays with his favourite toy Marmottina, in Rome, Italy, October 20, 2020.

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.

A photo of Sirio Persichetti, a 7-year-old Italian with spastic tetraplegia and cerebral palsy who has become an influencer by challenging perceptions of disability, when he was a baby in an intensive care unit at a hospital, is seen on a laptop at his home in Rome, Italy, October 23, 2020.