【?? ?? ??】Creative Mom used Imgur to get her son to take out the trash

Parenting: 2016 style.

When new Imgur user Kerrisimo's Imgur-loving son "D" wouldn't take out the trash,?? ?? ?? she got creative — she asked him to take it out one final time via Imgur.

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"D, this is your mom. Please take out the trash!" she titled her very first Imgur post.

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In the description, she explained further.

"So my son has been lurking here and constantly has his nose in the phone reading and laughing at stuff here," she wrote. "He doesn't hear me when I ask him to take the trash out. Help me get this to the front page please so maybe the trash will get taken out soon!"

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Her post made it to Imgur's front page and racked up over 187,000 views and 13,500 points. 

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She updated her post to explain the reasoning behind her creative parenting hack.

"My son is a 20-year-old young man who is on the autism spectrum," Kerrisimo said. "He is VERY high functioning and graduated three years ago from high school and last year graduated from college with honors."

"I may not be the cool mom but I do listen to him and what is of interest and important to him," Kerrisimo explained. "Parenting any child you try to find ways to interact with them."

Apparently D was so amused that he actually listened to his mom and took out the trash. 

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"Thanks everyone" Kerrisimo said in her followup Imgur post. "The trash went out and I could sweep, mop and wash down the can and wall. I even took off the stickers for that one person it bothered," she wrote. "My son really is surprised my first post went on the front page."

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