I have to share something with you all which will hopefully show you what a brilliant community minded club we have.
(Sorry to repeat this as most of you know). My eleven year old boy is autistic and
@LowerSouth kindly shared the YouTube video of Billy Bodin and his wife Kayleigh talking about their autistic son Bobby for world autism awareness week (I’ve pasted a link below. It’s a great watch).
I dropped Adam and his team a note to say thank you for raising awareness and to pass on my thanks to Billy and his family for speaking so eloquently. Awareness helps so much. I wasn’t expecting a response to be honest. I’m one fan and clubs are busy.
I got a note later in the day saying they had spoken to Billy and he wondered if we wanted to meet him at training. Now my lad would find that difficult and couldn’t cope at a match despite all the measures the club puts in place (sensory room, family stand etc). My daughter is a huge yellows fan and they extended the invite to her and offered a goodie bag to my son.
Now, I think that is an amazing response and it makes me even prouder to follow this brilliant club. I know mistakes get made and many of you are closer to things than me but many clubs would not have done anything like this. And whether it’s sponsoring Pride or the Oxford Literary Fest or its involvement in Truck, this club represents us all. There will be missteps but I am so touched at the response of the club.
