For the family of 2-year-old Jackson Coley, his precious visit with Snow White was not just a sweet moment— it was a breakthrough.
Jackson is a shy boy who doesn’t interact with strangers, and he was diagnosed with nonverbal autism just two weeks after his trip to Disney world.
With the headline, “Autism and Disney— When your 2-year-old falls in LOVE with Snow White,” Jackson’s mom, Amanda Coley, posted a video of her son meeting Snow White on her Facebook page.
Coley reposted the video on YouTube and captioned it, “This is my 2 year old – Jack. He was having nothing to do with any of the characters on our Disney vacation in November. You see, he has autism and is non-verbal. He is on the shy side with people he does not know. THEN… he met Snow White. I must have cried 1000 tears watching his interaction with her. He was in love.”
In the precious video, Jackson sat down with Snow White and didn’t leave.”He just suddenly melted and was perfectly content,” Coley describes. Something was different about Jackson’s interaction with her.
“It was almost that little breakthrough that he won’t always be so scared of other people,” she said. “That he will sit there and let somebody else love on him.”
Coley hopes that Jackson’s love for Snow White, will encourage other parents’ autistic children.
“Take them places and try things,” Coley says. “We had no idea how Jack Jack would react to Snow White the way he did. You truly never know what’s going to touch them and bring a reaction out of them that you’re not used to seeing.”
Today, Jackson enjoys watching his video with Snow White over and over again. He even points to the computer saying “more” in sign language. Coley still wonders why he loves it so much, and she believes “Maybe it’s a sense of security.”
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[Featured Image Credit: YouTube- Amanda Coley]
Little Boy With Nonverbal Autism Meets Snow White And Has A Breakthrough Moment is an article from: LifeDaily