For this little boy, Kaden Myers is a playmate. He is no different. This is what deeply touched her mom, Katie Myers. Kaden is a 1 year old child suffering from spinal muscular atrophy, a genetic disease that causes muscle deterioration. He uses a wheelchair and cannot do certain things.
While traveling in South Florida, Kaden and his family visited the science museum and an aquarium. Due to his illness, he could not play in the interactive exhibits. Another boy, seeing him in difficulty, spontaneously came to help him. Then he played with him. As with any other little boy, no matter what sickness or difference.
Hope for the future
Moved, Katie Myers immortalized this moment with a photo that she then posted on a Facebook account dedicated to her son. She added a message in which she thanked “the little boy at the science museum (…) for being awesome”.
Faced with the enthusiasm that her post aroused, more than 246,000 likes and 57,000 shares, the young mother told the American Huffington Post that this gesture had “given her hope for the future”. “It sounds so cliché but it made me think about how a person can really change the world, and how they manage to spark these kinds of discussions that can change the way people think,” she told the media.
What she wants is that all children act this way with people with reduced mobility. Let them see them as children and do not stop at disability. Let them be inspired by the “little boy at the science museum”.
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