A seven-year-old boy with Down Syndrome has taken a photograph of what his mum is calling ‘his guardian angel’ outside a plane window.
Young Aasher Liles was flying home to Houston, Texas when he borrowed his mum Kerri’s mobile phone to take some pictures. Later on, as Kerri flicked back through the images that Aasher had captured, she saw something pretty strange. The amazed mum shared the incredible photo and story on her Facebook page:
“Yesterday we were flying back to Houston from Washington and my seven year old, who’s recently become obsessed with taking pictures with our cell phones, wanted to take some pictures out of the window after I had reached across him to take one myself.
After he took a few dozen, I took the phone back and later went through the images to delete since my storage was getting low. As I was deleting, I came across this one close to the middle of all of his cloud and plane wing pics.”
Kerri told Chron that Aasher has a sixth sense about others’ needs, and the proud mum also explained her son’s unusual name:
“His name reflects his AAwesomeness. You know when you get an ‘A’ on a paper and how great that is, but when you get an ‘A+’, that’s really, really good. That’s how we feel about Aasher and how we want others to view him and his diagnosis.
We’ve known for a long time that Aasher has a sixth sense about others’ needs. Whether it be a hug or a smile. He just seems to gravitate to strangers in need.
He will let us know when he sees something by pointing and flapping his arms like wings. So, we’ve known he can see angels that surround him.”
