This birthday cake photo is going viral thanks to one small act of kindess

One small act of kindness is getting a large outreach this week after a woman posted a photo of a seemingly harmless birthday cake to social media.

Lisa Aldrich from Gaines Township in Michigan posted a photo of a birthday cake she purchased with “Happy Birthday Mandy” on it, which was written a bit sloppy. However, she came to find out it was written by an employee with Autism.

“I looked her In the eye and said thank you before I even looked at the cake,” Aldrich wrote on Facebook. “After looking, I nervously laughed and headed to check out- it didn't really matter to me that it looked so bad- I thought people would think it was funny.”

She added, “The cashiers at the self check out didn't think it was so funny though, and called a few more cashiers and a manager over to look, even taking pictures. To my surprise, after they discussed it, one cashier put her arm on my shoulder and said ‘the girl who wrote that has Autism. Thank you for smiling and thanking her- even though she's not supposed to write on cakes, you probably made her day.’”

Aldrich updated her post to assure the employee did not get into any trouble for helping with her cake request and in fact, she was just doing her job, which is to “do whatever she needed to do to serve the customer's needs.”