Skouson’s 10-year-old daughter, Cami, has autism, which can sometimes be characterized by an aversion to change and attachment to specific objects-in this case, a flowery pink shirt that Skouson bought at Target several years previously. “They were sold in 2011-2012”, Skouson wrote in a plea that has since gone viral.
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Cami, who is autistic, found a shirt she loved from Target five years ago, when she was in kindergarten.
A lot of people, touched by her story, shared her post on their social media sites.
As WTVM News reports, Skouson posted about her dilemma on Facebook, hoping that her friends and family might be able to help.
“We’d always been pretty lucky on eBay, and there were periods of time when she was without the shirt”, Skouson said via email. It was also posted on the Love What Matters Facebook page, where it had over 13,000 shares.
One of Skouson’s friends commented on the post: “Life is so overwhelming with an autistic child but you see people come and give and serve in ways you never would have dreamed of”. “We’ve tried similar shirts, and they don’t cut it with Cami!” “She doesn’t wear it all the time, but likes to put it on after school, and she wears it to bed as a pajama shirt”. “This shirt gives her a sense of security and calm, which is a necessity in her little world”. At last count, we are at 78 shirts, and I’ve had many offer to make her teddy bears, pillows, blankets, and other keepsakes out of the extras. “These are all total strangers”.
Later, she jokingly added: “Also, we don’t need any more shirts!”
The post is so popular, people even began reaching out to Target. When she saw a pile of them together, she was a little confused.
Skouson said in a Facebook post on August 7 that they’ve bought a total of five of the pink shirts with flowers on them, majority on eBay, after buying the original. “It didn’t take long until she picked each of them up with a big smile on her face!”
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According to her mother Deborah, Cami, second of five siblings, wants things to stay the way they are.
