{"id":2851,"date":"2012-06-11T09:31:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T14:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2012-06-11T09:32:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T14:32:31","slug":"following-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=2851","title":{"rendered":"Following Instructions?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Life with a High Functioning Autistic son has its interesting moments and lessons.\u00a0 Most days, we’re so used to his quirks that we no longer give them much thought; sort of a “that’s odd, but that’s Number One Son for you” type of thing.\u00a0\u00a0 Every once in a while, though, the reminders come through loud and clear.<\/p>\n

“Dad, I left something up on your computer for you to look at.\u00a0 Just follow the instructions I left you.”<\/p>\n

Now, if hearing that from an 11-yr-old boy won’t strike some measure of terror in your heart, I don’t know what will.\u00a0 I ascended the stairs with no small amount of trepidation, only to find this:<\/p>\n

\"Number<\/a>

Number One Son Leaves Me Instructions<\/p><\/div>\n

It took me a second or two to process it.\u00a0 He’d opened a new tab, gone to Google, and searched for the following string:\u00a0 “<- – dad read the entire thing” – knowing that this would lead to the second tab’s title bar having\u00a0 instructions\u00a0pointing to the first one, which is what he wanted me to read.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a hundred years, it would never have occurred to me to do that.<\/p>\n

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The Creepy Pasta was, in fact, creepy, but the instructions were brilliant.\u00a0 Number One Son, still making me tilt my head to the side and say, “Huh?”<\/p>\n

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