Caretaker Gives 30-Year-Old Man With Special Needs His First Ever Birthday Party

Aug 16, 2019 by apost team

Some teachers leave a lasting impact on their students. Many of us have a teacher that we can look back fondly on, whether they taught us in high school or college. There are teachers that we simply do not forget due to their past actions.

A teacher from Waco, Texas is now going viral after helping her former student, Chris Barrington. Chris is a 30-year-old special needs man who just experienced his very first birthday party. It was all due to the former teacher who has gone out of her way to give the man as many blessings as she possibly can. That teacher is Michell Girard. She remembered who Chris was when police called her to say they had picked him up. He had been a student of hers back in junior high school, but she had not talked to him since then. While she was surprised to hear from him, she was also curious about his current situation.

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The local police had found Chris wandering on a highway in Texas alone. He had been out there for about two days and had no one to care for him. His father was in the last stages of leukemia and was too weak to properly care for his son. Chris had nowhere to go. Chris has the mental capacity of a 6-year-old. However, he was able to remember the name of his old junior high teacher. He told the name to the police, who then got in contact with Michell. They wondered what would happen next.

Michell asked the police what would happen to him if she did not take him in. They told her that he would end up in an institution, so Michell decided that she was going to care for him on her own. She welcomed her former student into her life and her heart.

"He's never had a birthday present, a birthday party, he's never had Christmas, thanksgiving, nothing," she told WIFR. "So this year is going to be full of firsts.

She decided to throw him a birthday party since he had never had one. The happy young man sat and smiled shyly when he was given his first present and birthday cake. Many members of the community helped her throw the party. Chris was even taken on his first boat ride by JMB fishing, a local fishing company.

To learn more about this amazing story, watch the video below:

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