DANVERS, MASS. (WHDH) - A Peabody family’s day was brightened after an employee at the Lowe’s store in Danvers gave their son a special gift.
Lauren Troisi takes her son Noah, who is living with autism, to Lowe’s about once a week to look at his favorite thing: the Halloween animatronics.
“He [Noah] was nonverbal until about a year and a half ago,” Troisi said. “These animatronics have, when I say, motivated him, and helped him find his voice – it might sound corny to people but it’s so the truth.”
She said Noah asked for a store T-shirt for Christmas because he’s Lowe’s biggest fan.
When Debbie Noyes, an employee at the Lowe’s, learned how much Noah loves Lowe’s, she gifted him a store apron from their kids program.
“It makes my heart beat,” Noah said. “I felt loved.”
“I’m almost in tears right now, because it’s like a beautiful thing to bring joy to a little boy and just giving him an apron and a kit made his day,” Troisi said. “He just had this like glow to him, and he was like, ‘this is just the best day of my life.'”
Troisi said inclusion doesn’t always require a grand gesture: sometimes it’s just about showing interest in what a child loves and making them feel like then belong.
“Having someone be able to see him for what he enjoys and what he loves, and it might not be the normal for a 7-year-old but just to see that was so nice,” Troisi said.
Troisi said her family is in the process of buying a house, and Noah requested an extra room to put his animatronics.
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