I want a website

The first thing I heard this morning was “I want a website”. This statement came from a cute face, millimeters away from my half sleeping mug. While I was still trying to focus on waking up, Cody decided that repetition was the answer to getting his way. So as I joined the land of the living all I could hear was,” I want a website, I want a website, I want a ………you get the picture. So for reasons of sanity I relented.

“Ok, so what kind of website do you want Codes” was my first question. His answer left me more confused than usual. So instead of trying to tell you what he wanted, I’ll let him tell you. (unedited instructions for Codys website, as typed by him)

“I want to get a webpage and download tom and jerry. Videos games wallpapers movies and much much more. Dad said I can get movies games and much much more.
But I can do that things like videos pictures games and cartoons and much much more. I can call it Codys page.”

So my instructions were clear. A Tom and Jerry and much much more website. No problem. I had some concerns over copyright infringement, but hey, they couldn’t sue a 7 yr old autistic kid. But just in case I opted for a google home page with Tom and Jerry gadgets, oh yes and much much more. The first step was to set up a google account. For this we needed a email address. After a short explanation of what email was I asked Cody what he wanted his email address to be. After a short silence he yelled at the top of his lungs, “Warner Brothers cartoons”. Unfortunately warnerbrotherscartoons@gmail.com was taken so we had to choose again. His next choice was available, so tomandjerryandmuchmuchmore@gmail.com it was to be. Our next task was to choose a password. What followed has to be one of the weirdest conversations I’ve ever had . It started with me trying to explain what a password was.

Me : It’s a secret word that only you know and when you use it the computer knows it’s you.
Cody: Yes.
Me : So have you got a word you want to use?
Cody: Yes.
Me :What is the word?
Cody: Its secret.
Me : Yes it is, but you have to tell me so I can set up your homepage.
Cody: Yes I know.
Me : Well can you tell me?
Cody: (Huge sigh) THE PASSWORD IS SECRET!
Me : I know Codes but you ……OH, is secret the word you want to use?
Cody: Yes
Me : Sorry boy, it has to be 8 letters.
Cody: OK.
Me : Have u thought of one?
Cody: Yes.
Me : Will you tell me what the word is?
Cody: Its 8 letters.
Me : That’s good Codes, what is the word?
Cody: (Sigh) Its 8 letters
Me : (picking up on the sigh) is the word you want to use 8 letters
Cody: Yes, (I start typing….8… l..e..t…t…e) No, silly is not that its
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Me : AAAARRRGGGG ………………………….I love you Codes.
Cody: What’s AAAARRRGGG ….I love you Codes?
Me : It’s the same as I love you , but times 10 more.