An autistic boy who was given a blue bucket to trick-or-treat with to ensure everybody knows he’s different is just grateful to be singled out for once, his parents have said.
Finley Rice, seven, had merely planned to put on a Batman costume and go door to door asking for sweets – until his loving parents intervened.
Mum Karen Rice, 40, explained: “Finley never gets to stand out in his day-to-day life. Aside from when he’s being excluded from birthday parties, or being relentlessly bullied. Or when I’m filming his meltdowns and putting them on Instagram.”
“We really like the attention,” Rice continued. “I mean… HE really likes the attention. No, I definitely said ‘he’.”
Finley Rice commented: “Hopefully next year I’ll be snatched by a ghoul.”
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