Rudolph said he saw Paske eating alone and asked if he could join him. As he entered the lunch room, he noticed student Bo Paske sitting by himself at a table, so he made a decision to sit down across from him so he wouldn’t be alone, ESPN reported.
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Since Leah posted the touching image, it has been shared more than 12,600 times. Did I have many friends? “I was just so touched and so blessed and so humble that he would take a moment to sit with my child”. “Just a really warm person”. Still, the two enjoyed their lunches together during a visit to a local middle school by some of the FSU players. “It’s just heartbreaking that he’s in that situation, but I’m praying for him”.
“This is one day I didn’t have to worry if my sweet boy ate lunch alone, because he sat across from someone who is a hero in many eyes”, she wrote. ‘That may sound like a awful thing to say, but in some ways I think, I hope, it shields him. However, because Bo has autism, he doesn’t seem to notice the trivial things that would usually bother a child, such as enduring people’s stares, not getting invited to birthday parties or eating lunch alone.
“Those are the days I feel sad for him, but he doesn’t seem to mind”. It’s one of my daily questions for him.
It gets better – at school today, all the kids wanted to have lunch with Bo. The Florida State wide receiver made Bo’s day – his mother’s probably more so – and changed the boy’s lunchroom status forever.
“A friend of mine sent this lovely picture to me today and when I saw it with the caption: “Travis Rudolph is eating lunch with your son”, I had tears streaming down my face”, Bo’s mum Leah Paske wrote on Facebook.
FSU coach Jimbo Fisher said he’s proud of his player.
After Paske’s friend sent her the picture, she was overjoyed by the football player’s kindness. She says she worries about him every day, because she knows no one wants to sit with him.
Whether or not a Florida State football player makes it big in the pros, he’ll have a fan for life thanks to his actions off the field.
One of them, Travis Rudolph, the team’s star wide receiver, noticed one sixth-grader in particular.
Rudolph told reporters that he saw Bo sitting alone, so he asked Bo if he could sit with him.
On Tuesday, we shared with you the story of Rudolph’s lunch-time meeting with Bo, a young boy with autism.
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I’ve read this three times now and it still gets me. It was real easy.
