Santander (EFE).- At eight years old, Lucía Navarro, better known as SuperLu, has become a celebrity for telling through her Instagram account (@SuperLu_6) her day-to-day life in a wheelchair, serving as example and fighting to improve the living conditions of people with disabilities.
“Many people thank us for what our daughter helps them, we see that we help them a lot to be better, to have more sympathy with people with disabilities,” the family told EFE.
Lucía’s Instagram profile has more than 23,000 followers, a number that is growing day by day after a video of hers, in which, with her denunciation of the lack of “empathy” and inequality in access to culture for women, people with disabilities, reached more than ten million people on this social network alone.
A profile created, according to her mother, Lucía Santamaría, to “fight” for a robotic treatment that improves her daughter’s therapy. “If in a few years science advances and the marrow is regenerated, it would be the way for her to walk again,” she confides.
Far from drama, says his mother, they seek to raise awareness of the “absurd” things that people with disabilities face, such as, he points out, the few special parking lots and the misuse that some people make of them, or the “lack of aid”.
“Society is the one that is disabling our daughter,” says Santamaría, a teacher in Cantabria, who celebrates that her impact on networks is helping people “to have more empathy with people with disabilities.”
“She is such a special girl. Children give us those lessons, they give us the strength to go on and fight, ”she points out.
And beyond the virtual world and the support of personalities such as the graffiti artist Okuda, who has customized her wheelchair, this Cantabrian girl is stopped on the street every day to ask for photos and show her support.
“I’m your fan” or “we’re all with you” are some of the most repeated phrases by people who come across Lucía and her family, several of them during the time the girl spoke with EFE to tell about her situation.
Life lessons
Her condition does not prevent Lucía from being “happy” and being able to practice sports such as adapted football and basketball, according to what she herself told EFE.
“How can we not be strong,” says Santamaría, who affirms that her daughter is “amazing” and has given her and her father, Alberto Navarro, a “life lesson” since she was left in a wheelchair.
Her family explains that despite the fact that “she was a healthy girl”, two and a half years ago, when she was 6 years old, “she stopped moving her legs” and fell into a coma for 23 days.
After waking up, “she could not move” and after a long “struggle” she managed to move forward, although she was paralyzed from the chest down and began a long recovery at the National Hospital for Paraplegics in Toledo and in Valdecilla, in Santander.
“After Toledo, we thought it was over, but that’s where the real war against architectural barriers and society begins,” confesses his mother.
Pablo Ayerbe Caselles