Card trick turns boy with autism and hotel worker into fast friends
Photo credit: Megan Griffin Haas
SELINSGROVE, Pa. (FOX 35 ORLANDO) - An unlikely friendship between a hotel worker and a boy with autism is melting hearts across the internet—and it all started with a simple card trick.
Colin Haas, 13, was checking into the Hampton Inn in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania with his family where Kahlief Hill was working behind the desk.
The family says Hill was very kind. So kind in fact that Colin went right back to see him. In a Facebook post, Megan Griffin Haas posted a photo of the touching interaction between the two when Hill asked Colin if he wanted to see a card trick.
“He didn’t know that this little boy has autism. That learning and doing card tricks is a passion of his because it helps to quiet and focus his brain as well as keep his hands busy."
"He didn’t know that this little boy lost his dad a few years ago, has been on the waiting list for a ‘big brother’ for well over two years now, and lives with only his mom and sister, so very much misses interacting with male figures.”
Haas wrote that Hill never once made Colin feel like he was a nuisance or a bother. In fact, when Colin saw that Hill was working the next day, "he made it a point to let Colin know he was geared up and ready to go with more card tricks."
The two are now friends on Facebook and Hill has invited Colin to be his guest at an Autism Awareness brunch that The Hampton Inn Selinsgrove is hosting at the end of the month.