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episodes without the ads something else Hello and welcome to Katie Piper's Extraordinary People.

This is the podcast where I sit down with an extraordinary person and they share their story with us.

They might have overcome some kind of adversity.

They may still be on that journey.

But with stories that will make you laugh, cry and hopefully feel

a little bit inspired. Lucy Dawson is a 26-year-old model, campaigner and influencer,

telling her difficult story whilst paving new paths for young people with disabilities.

At the age of 20, Lucy was studying criminology at the University of Leicester, where she began

experiencing head pain that just wouldn't go away, and as we now know, would change her life

forever. Due to her symptoms in 2016, Lucy was misdiagnosed with a breakdown and section

for three and a half months in a psychiatric centre, and the pain didn't stop there for Lucy.

After failures from the professionals looking after her, Lucy was left paralysed on her left

leg below the knee. After four gralling months, Lucy finally got diagnosed with the autoimmune

encephalitis, an acute inflammation of the brain that leaves many people with permanent

brain damage and has a mortality rate of about one in 10. After her dream of joining the police

force was whisked away from her, Lucy is now an encephalitis and disability campaigner and an

ambassador for disabled modelling. What a phenomenal woman. Thank you so much for

joining me today, Lucy. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited. Do you know what? It's so

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