A barber waited two months without touching the scissors so that a 4-year-old autistic boy would feel safe in his shop, and when he finally agreed to a haircut, the boy made it clear that the chair was not an option 🤭

For two months, Mason walked into a barber shop in Wales and left exactly as he had arrived: with his hair untouched.

He was 4 years old, autistic, and, according to his mother, Denine Davies, had gone more than two years without a proper haircut. Any change in his routine overwhelmed him. She had seen on Facebook how barber James Williams, 26, known as “Jim the Trim”, had worked with another autistic child, and decided to give it a try.

Williams didn’t take out the scissors. He let Mason wander around on his own, at his own pace, until the place was no longer new to him. They met every two weeks “to get him used to the place and to me”, the barber explained.

Then, one morning in November 2015, Williams lay down on the floor and managed to give him a haircut. A photo of the moment went around the world and filled his phone with calls. “If you really love what you do, that’s what you do for people”, he said.