Last night was DH's night to get the hell out of the house to have some "me" time. So, SS14 and I were hanging out at the house doing our thing. After he did all of his chores he got to have some computer time.

LIFE LESSON TIME: when you have a VERY literal autistic son who is obsessed with the possibility of the apocalypse happening letting him find an article about The Doomsday Clock on the internet is NOT a good idea. I spent way too much time explaining to him that it was a concept measuring tension in the world and not an actual countdown to a dropping of a nuclear bomb. Bless his Literal Brain!

Then, when DH texted me asking how it was going..I told him SS14 found DoomsDay Clock and I was trying to calm him. DH was freaking because he had never heard of the Doomsday Clock.

I had TWO literal autistic brains to calm. One was easier than the other. I told DH to look it up on his phone right now and chill the F out. He was surrounded by a bunch of guys who could explain it to him. I had a kid to deal with.

Finally got Kiddo to realize that a bomb was not going to drop on Washington DC at 2 1/2 minutes to midnight that it was like saying the terror alert level is an orange or a red or whatever. He understood it when I related it to color (abstract) and not time (specific).

Whew. Then we spent the rest of the night watching sitcoms.