Vacuum salesman invited to birthday for a child with autism, moves room to tears

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Special needs teen Dylan Johnson has had a passion for vacuum cleaners since he was just 2. Now, he is turning 14, and his mother, Jodie Green, recently reached out to Kirby Company, makers of the Kirby vacuum for a special request, reports WTVR.

Her email read:

I am reaching out to you in hopes for an answer to an unusual request for my son who is autistic. He has always been obsessed with vacuum cleaners. His favorite is the Kirby. He spends hours every day watching videos on his tablet about different Kirby’s. When he isn’t watching videos about them, he is talking about them. I really would LOVE to get a demo done for him for his birthday. In fact, I am even getting him a cake made that looks like a Kirby vacuum. I am writing to you in hopes that you can get me in touch with a way to get him this demo. I want to be clear that I do not intend on purchasing a Kirby. I was hoping that I could pay a flat fee or thought that maybe if you have salesmen in training that needs to get in practice demos for training purposes. I do not want anything free, but as the mother of a special needs child, it is so hard to find things to make my son happy. I know that having this demo done would just be so awesome, and it would warm my heart to see him so excited to experience that.

After receiving the email, the vacuum company was compelled to make Dylan’s dream come true.

Kirby sent Al Archie, who has been selling vacuums for 25 years, along with a soccer ball, Kirby hat and Kirby t-shirt.

Archie was stunned not only by Dylan’s knowledge, which far surpassed his own, but by pictures of a younger Dylan dressed up like a vacuum salesman. He gave his presentation and then gave the birthday boy a present of his own.

“At the end of the demonstration [he] gave my son a brand new Kirby vacuum,” his mother said. “There was not a dry eye in the house.”