Background is both kids have ASD. They're 22 and 20 and at home. I'm on my own - DH died when kids were young.
I work more than full time running a business. I look after my 84yo mum one day a week and one evening - she is unable to fet out I dont visit dye to mobility issues and I'm pretty beaten up now.
The kids ASD means my house is a wreck. My DS and I had got it into some semblence of order before my DD moved back 9m ago. Now we have no lounge - it's full of my DDs stuff and has hence become a dumping ground.
My DS room is on the top floor - I rarely go up there, but it's a mess.
My DD has 2 rooms. Her bedroom is a mess. Her second room is full and her stuff is in the hallway.
My 2 rooms are now getting filled with stuff noone else can fit in their rooms.
The boiler pump went last year - we had no central heating last winter cos I couldn't get anyone cos of the state of the house. I've booked an appointment next Friday and left strict instructions to me DD to clear her floors so we can get into her rooms and sort them out.
I got back from my mums last night and my DD had done nothing. My DS talked to me - he's very intelligent. He mentioned I didn't get him up for work (in his words I did the dirty on him) and I said, I called you when I woke up. I'd set my alarm for 8am one day to get an extra hour sleep. I reminded him that I had until then got up every day early to Di his lunch and make him a coffee, but as he hadn't eaten his lunch from the day before, I decided I'd have an extra hours sleep am I wrong? He said OK I get that, but I couldn't go to work that day.
He then said his sister had said she feels unsupported. Her rooms need sorting but I'm either working or at grandma's.
I said well you're both adults, I can't do everything for you forever. You have to sort yourselves out. We talked. I said it's sink or swim. He told me I had chosen an unsafe learning method and how it's completely wrong to set someone up for potential failure (in fact, in the analogy, it's setting someone up for the risk of death). It really upset me because he's right. I just don't know what else I can actually do.
I bought my DD a physical alarm clock cos she uses her phone to help her sleep which means it's often dead in the morning so her alarm doesn't work, but she's not using it so often sleeps until 4pm or later - she has chronic fatigue. So if I don't get her up it's on me even if I have a full day or work or I'm at a clients site, there's an expectation I should get her up. The issue she's raising is that if she's not up she can't do anything. But it's crap. She was up when I left to go to my mums yesterday but still did nothing.
My DD is completely fd up. She has anxiety like you wouldn't believe the psychiatrist put her on meds but now they're not working. I've tried taking her for hypnotherapy. She expects me to note all her medical appointments and I can't always do that. She isn't putting them in her diary.
I hate my DH for leaving me with this life.
Noone at work would suspect anything. I get stuff done, I'm highly successful and I earn a decent income. In fact I give money to my DD as shes incapable of work - she was turned down for PIP but she needs it - and i give my DS money to supplement his income. He saves like noones business so I'm OK with that. My DD spends every penny she gets.
Am I wrong to use sink or swim? If I am and I think I am, what more can I do? I am not depressed, I am though getting to the end of my tether.