A 10-year-old boy with autism in a Wisconsin community received some help after he was heartbroken that only two people were at his birthday party.
“I’ve got decorations. I’m planning on 20 people showing up,” Kayla Sippel, Andrew Schmidt’s mother, said. “Two hours in, no show. Andrew kind of looked at me and was, like, ‘Mom, where is everybody?'”
Sippel said her son took the lack of attendance very hard.
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“I’ve never seen him so devastated,” Sippel said. “I felt like I had failed him in every aspect of it. And all he kept saying was, ‘Why doesn’t anybody want to play with me? Where are all my friends? How come no one wants to come to my party?’, and it just broke my heart.”
Sippel’s husband, recognizing how upset Schmidt was by the turnout, took to social media to ask for help.
“A simple birthday card in exchange for some good karma. Not asking for money or anything other than cards,” he posted to Facebook.
“We were wondering if people could just send a couple birthday cards,” Sippel said. “You know, kind of cheer him up a little bit and it escalated from there.”
In a matter of a few days, hundreds of cards started pouring in, according to a report.
“We’ve gotten some from Mississippi, Missouri, Texas, California,” according to Sippel. “To know that complete strangers are doing this, it’s heartwarming, and I’m at a complete loss for words from it.”
However, cards were not the only things the young Schmidt would receive.
Community Task Force MKE used donations to buy the boy birthday gifts, the report noted.
His favorite gift appears to be an ESPN football.
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“He’s been in really great spirits. He’s forgotten that nobody showed up to his birthday party,” Sippel said. ‘I have never seen him happier.”
