"So If I say that word..."

I have serious cause to believe that anyone who thinks my little brother is autistic is being had. This is one of the reasons why.

Anyone who has been around Marcus for any amount of time knows that he has a penchant to drop the f bomb when he gets upset. I think he started doing it when we told him to "Use your words" because he used to hit people instead. In that way, it's an improvement.

To stop this, my mom has implemented a "I'm gonna smack your mouth" policy for cuss words in the house. I'm not going to smack his mouth though because I know damn well he will pee on me if I do.

So he calls me a fucker one day and I send him to timeout. As I'm letting him out, Mom comes in and says "If I catch you using that word, I'm going to smack your mouth." I guess she wanted to make sure he knew it was a general rule, because she added "And if Justin uses that word, I'll smack his mouth too!"

Marcus takes an inquisitive posture.

He looks at me. He looks at mom.

"Wait. If I use that word... You smack his mouth?"

He smiled mischievously.

"No Marcus, If you use that word, I'll smack your mouth."

"Oh." Clearly broken-hearted.

"Marcus, were you going to have mom smack my mouth?!"

He looks at me, giggles a little and goes "No..."