Pim Neill is 6 years old, lives in Pittsburgh, and had wanted to be a Girl Scout since she was 3, when she saw some girls selling cookies and decided that was her thing. What no one told her was that the road ahead would be an obstacle course. The first troop her dad, Luke Anorak-Neill, tried to sign her up for replied bluntly: Pim’s disabilities would ‘hold the group back.’
A second troop rejected her, claiming she was too young. Finally, she found a kindergarten troop that did accept her. What happened next is unprecedented: Pim sold more than 100,000 boxes of cookies in a single season, shattering the national all-time record.
Her TikTok video, in which she says, ‘Hi, my name is Pim, do you want to buy cookies?’, surpassed 5 million views in days. Pim has selective mutism and sensory processing disorder, conditions that according to one of those troops made her a problem. Today, her dad told the world: ‘Pim is unstoppable.’ The ones who shut the door on her, meanwhile, have said nothing.