Maine Coon Calms Talented Autistic Girl
Thula is a one-year-old tabby Maine Coon who is an inseparable companion to Iris Grace, a cute four-year-old autistic girl who has not spoken and who lives in Leicestershire, England (in the middle of England). She likes to paint nature and she does it extremely well too, so much so she can sell her paintings for a sizeable sum of money (£295 plus P&P for the largest prints).
Iris loves nature. The beauty of this story is not only in Iris’s impressionistic paintings, à la Monet, but in the relationship between her and her cat. Thula reduces Iris’s anxieties and calms her.
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Iris’s mum, Arabella Carter-Johnson, believes that Thula is helping Iris to become more social. Iris has great powers of concentration when painting. She loves nature and her cat.
Thula even takes a dip in the bath to encourage Iris to do likewise. Iris doesn’t like baths!
Here are some thumbnail pictures which take you to fully formatted versions if you click on them:
- Autistic girl Iris and her cat Thula
- Autistic girl Iris and her cat Thula sleeping together – inseparable
- Autistic girl Iris and her cat Thula painting together
The proceeds of sale of Iris’s paintings help in paying for therapy. This link takes you to her website.