Within a week, after making an appeal to social media for help finding a shirt for her autistic 10 years old daughter, a mother from Utah had either been promised or was procured 135 shirts - all the precise style and brand she wanted for her daughter. Thanks to social media, pleas as such get response from all over.
Deborah Grimshaw Skouson, a mother from St. George, dropped her appeal on facebook asking for help locating a pink shirt with hearts and flowers for her 10 - years-old autistic daughter, Cami, last Sunday, August 7, 2016. In a report in Fox2, Deborah asked her Facebook friends to share her post or just the picture of the shirt.
In her Facebook post, Skouson explained that her daughter Cami has been fixated on the pink and flowery shirt she got in her kindergarten and that they were able to find four on eBay. However, her latest one is nearly unwearable and eBay has gone dry. This is where her plea in social media came in.
"We will pay for the shirt and the shipping if someone would be kind enough to sell it to us. It has to be this exact shirt! We've tried similar shirts, and they don't cut it with Cami!" Skouson appealed.
A lot of people, touched by her story, shared her post on their social media sites. Until last Tuesday, August 16, 2016, according to a report in kutv.com, Skouson said that she had either received or been promised 135 shirts - all the exact kind her daughter wanted.
"It's been very, very touching," Skouson said. I am overwhelmed by the people's connection to this story, she added.
According to her mother Deborah, Cami, second of five siblings, wants things to stay the way they are. And this was the very reason why her mother never gave up on finding the shirt. Many thanks to Facebook!
