Heart-warming note slipped under changing room door brought a smile to girl’s face after a bad week
‘You are beautiful… keep smiling’
“You are beautiful… keep smiling” the thoughtful note said
A heart-warming note slipped under a changing room door brought a smile to a little girl’s face. Ella-May, 10, who has autism, was having a ‘meltdown’ after her swimming lesson at Rochdale Leisure Centre on Wednesday evening (July 19) and was ‘calling herself horrible names’.
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Mum Kimmie Porter said her daughter was having a ‘bad week’ and was upset after her cat and best friend Felix had to be put down. After her lesson, when they were in one of the stalls in the changing rooms at the swimming baths, a woman slipped a kind, handwritten note under the door along with some chocolate.
It read: “You are beautiful. Keep smiling. It upsets me you saying bad things about yourself”, along with a hand drawn love heart.
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Mum Kimmie said: “My daughter is autistic and were having a one to one lesson at Rochdale swimming baths. My daughter had been having a bad week as we had to put her best friend, our cat Felix, to sleep on Monday, so had been having more meltdowns.
“So in her one to one she was calling herself horrible things. And this carried on in the changing rooms.
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Mum Kimmie with daughter Ella-May, aged 10
“A lady had witnessed my daughter struggling in the lesson and was in the next changing room and heard my daughter saying these things again while I was trying to get her changed.
“Next thing I knew, the lady had pushed this note with some chocolate under for my daughter. I hate hearing my daughter calling herself names so this helped cheer her and me up.”
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Kimmie shared a picture of the note on to a local Rochdale Facebook group with the hope of finding the kind-hearted individual responsible.
She wrote: “Wondered if anyone on here can help, I would love to find the lady who pushed this under the cubicle at Rochdale swimming tonight as my daughter was having a meltdown and calling herself some horrible stuff.”
The post amassed over 400 likes, with one person writing: “How lovely, hope your daughter is ok.” Another commented: “Doesn’t take much to have a big impact on someone else’s bad day.”