One blue cup was the only thing standing between a boy and dehydration, and the internet helped locate a solution. Ben Carter, a teenager with severe autism from England, would drink only from one specific blue training cup he had used since childhood. When the cup was discontinued and his last one began falling apart, his father issued a desperate online appeal. For Ben, it was not simply a favorite cup, since even tiny changes in shape, color, or texture could make him refuse to drink, and his attachment was so strong that he had previously been hospitalized with dehydration after rejecting other cups. The story then went viral. The manufacturer tracked down the original mold, restarted production, and made 500 identical cups just for Ben, giving him what was essentially a lifetime supply. One blue cup, one worried father, more than a decade after the model was discontinued, and 500 replacements made for one boy. Sometimes the smallest things can mean everything.