A mother is fighting to have a meme comparing her disabled son to a pug removed from the internet.

AliceAnn Meyer, from Texas in the USA, said the cruel altered image of her son Jameson, who suffers from a rare genetic disorder that prevents his head and face from developing, had been shared thousands of times online, and she wanted to put a stop to it.

Jameson has Pfeiffer syndrome – a birth defect that stops the head and brain developing into its normal shape.

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Ms Meyer wrote a regular blog called Jameson’s Journey on her four-year-old’s progress and condition, hoping to connect with others who might be in the same situation.

But in January, to her horror, she noticed that someone had copied an image of her son from the blog and created a horrible meme comparing Jameson to a pug dog.

It had been circulating for one year.

She first spotted the photo of Jameson on a Facebook page, where it had been shared up to 3000 times, she said on her blog.

Ms Meyer won’t give up her fight for her son. Photo: Jameson’s Journey

It was then she knew it was time to take matters into her own hands, and so Ms Meyer reported the meme to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter “thousands” of times.

“I spent my Saturday night fighting an individual to remove my son’s photo from his Facebook page, where it had been liked 5000 times and shared nearly 3000,” she wrote in a post in the blog.

“It took hundreds, maybe even thousands, of reports being submitted, and an army of people fighting with me.

“The meme was found [so far] on six Facebook pages [three of whom are the same person] … at least eight times on Instagram, and 10 or 11 times on Twitter.”

Finally, after an exhausting battle, Facebook removed the post.

However, the internet is an infinite space, and Ms Meyer said she and her husband continued to bring down the image, filling copyright infringement claims on each version they located online, the Nine Network reported.

She said on the blog post that there was no way she would ever know who created the meme, “but for every post and share of this meme I will do everything in my power to get it taken down”.

“If you see this face somewhere it doesn’t belong, or if you see that meme, screenshot it and send it to me. Please do not share the meme,” she wrote.

“I refuse not to fight. It is absurd to me that it will ever be ok to target children to degrade and humiliate them.

“It means a lot to stand up together and spread awareness about treating others with kindness.”

But not everyone ignored the family’s plea for help, with people offering overwhelming support on the Jameson’s Journey Facebook page.

“I hope that people who read the post will definitely learn about the craniofacial community and about Pfeiffer syndrome, which is one of many craniofacial syndromes,” Ms Meyer said.