Social media plea brings in loads of special Kraft Dinner for autistic Nanaimo boy
NANAIMO — Hundreds of boxes of a limited-edition pasta have filled the home of a family in Nanaimo following a plea to help their autistic son.
Reed Botwright put out a call on social media last week when he and his wife could not track down any more boxes of Star Wars Kraft Dinner, one of the only foods their six-year-old son Everett will eat.
Everett is on the autism spectrum and began paring back which foods he would eat about three years ago, Botwright explained, describing his son as a “special boy” with a huge imagination.
“One of his kind of key issues has been surrounding food for smell, taste and texture,” he said.