17yo ds has extremely demand avoidant asd.
He has had years and years of extremely violent meltdowns, which have certainly traumatised his younger siblings.
He has had 3 self harm events which required emergency services assistance.
His father, who we lived with until he was 9, was occasionally violent towards ds and me, and verbally abusive a lot.
We have had a lot of support over the years, he has been offered so many interventions - all of which have failed because he will not engage with them, or he engages for a short time and then disengages and that is it for him.
Ds has been violent towards me and his younger siblings in the past. He is much bigger and stronger than me now.
In the past year or so he has become simultaneously less violent but increasingly verbally abusive. Towards me and his siblings. He regularly calls me and dd bitch, bitch whore and other misogynistic terms.
He calls his brothers retards, cunts, tells them to kill themselves, and other stuff that is just vile.
The siblings are afraid of him because of the previous violence, and frankly so am I. Nothing I can say or do makes any difference and he does not respect me in any way.
I feel like I escaped one dv situation and have ended up in another. I tried so hard, over the years, knowing what he's been through and the mental health and ND struggles he is dealing with, but I've clearly failed and I feel out of options.
He is supposed to start a supported course in September, which I have been hoping will be the making of him.
But we are away on holiday right now, and he's being so unbelievably awful towards his siblings, I just feel like I cannot put them through this any more.
I have said to ds1 tonight that I will not stand for this behaviour any more, and if he will not stop it he can't live at home any more.
I would obviously feel awful if I gave up on him and made him move out. I don't even know where he would/could go.
I don't know how to do the right thing for all of my children, because it seems like their best interests lie in opposite directions.
Any words of advice would be welcome right now.