This Santa Is On Our Nice List For Making Boy With Autism Feel Comfortable

“Oh my gosh, to be able to do something that other families do — normally a lot of things are harder for us as a family and we got to do the same tradition as everyone else,” Brayden’s mother, Erin Deely, told the news site. “We just [did] it on the floor.”

The Deely family met the kind Santa at Charlotte’s South Park mall while attending the Caring Santa event — a nationwide event put on by the organization Autism Speaks, which gives children with autism and other special needs a controlled, safe space to have the traditional Santa meet-and-greet experience.