I know this story – it is definitely true (maybe a tad embellished, but the ikker is true). My son had a similar story occur when he was a counselor in the summer camp of that Yeshivah. He had a camper who is developmentally disabled, not Shay, and the boy was assigned to his bunk. He was a little leery as to how the other boys would accept this very obviously different child, but they took him into the group like any other friend, and he was very gratified to see the friendships that were forged with this child that summer. The boys were instinctively more patient with him, and didn’t get upset when he needed a little more time to do things, even in a game of competition, and they cheered every accomplishment. He was often the first one picked on a team, and the sensitivity and mesnchlechkeit of my son’s bunk made him very proud of his campers.
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