LUCAS Whitelegg likes to tell people adversity is his superpower.

At just 11 years old, Lucas has already endured much more adversity than anyone should have to face in their lifetime.

He was just shy of 10 weeks old when he first began showing signs of paralysis, and a month later was diagnosed with infantile botulism - an illness caused by a toxin similar to Botox, attaching to nerve endings i...