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Dad Overcome with Emotion as Grocery Store Clerk Helps His Autistic Son Stock Shelves

Will Maule : Aug 2, 2018  Faithwire.com

"He could have ignored him. He could have made an excuse and said he couldn't allow him to help. Instead, he let him have his moment and in turn gave my family a moment we will never forget..."

[Faithwire.com] A Louisiana supermarket employee has restored our faith in humanity after noticing an autistic boy's interest in re-stocking shelves and allowing him to do the job himself. (Image source: Twitter/NBC Nightly News/via Faithwire)

Sid Edwards and his son Jack Ryan Edwards, 17, were in their local Rouses Market in Baton Rouge when Jack, who is on the autistic spectrum, took a keen interest in the work that one of the store clerks was completing. Edwards said that his son was utterly mesmerized by the task of restocking a fridge with juice, watching intently as the employee filled up the fridge.

When 20-year-old Jordan Taylor noticed Jack's fascination, he reached out to the boy.

"Something in the back of my mind was just like, 'ask if he wants to help you,'" Taylor explained to WAFB-TV.

So, for a good half hour, Jack and Ryan stacked the refrigerator up with juice. It might seem like a relatively small task, but it was a "big deal," to Ryan, the young man's dad explained.

"To me, when you go to a grocery store with an autistic kid, especially when they're young, people don't understand, they're not very accepting," Edwards noted. "Somehow this young man reached my son ... he went into Jack Ryan's world"...

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