Teenage DS is being ridiculous

[NotDarkGothicMama]

I've just explained to 15yo DS, again, that it's entirely reasonable for me to have different expectations of his behaviour to those I have for our pair of 5mo kittens. He's insisting that they keep ignoring him when he tells them they're not allowed in his bedroom and should have consequences like me telling them off and removing their favourite toy. He's NT, very bright and I'm not entirely sure he's being serious but we've had this discussion so many times that I'm starting to doubt both of our sanity at this point.

He's being ridiculous, isn't he?

Is this serious? Tell him that if he wants to impose consequences, he can give it a go. He’ll soon learn that it is impossible. Does he close his door?

I don't know. My teenager hates the cat in their room. He doesn't want cat hair around his room or for him to mess anything. My son is probably NT also, undiagnosed. I do try keep the cat out of his room and close his room door when he's not at home. My son would probably be the same tbh

On the basis that you can judge a book by its cover, we need a photo of said kittens and DS to decide.

If he thinks that taking away a kittens toys as a punishment will hell to stop them coming into his room then perhaps he is not as bright as you imagine.

This may be true.

He does keep his door closed but they have an uncanny knack of sneaking in on the rare occasions he emerges from his hovel for supply runs. I've mentioned that they might be less interested in going in his room if there were fewer interesting smells wafting from it, but apparently that's got nothing to do with it, they're just trying to torment him and I'm showing favouritism in refusing to tell them off.

Kitten tax attached.

He's just come downstairs with a load of clean clothes to wash because the kittens being in his room has "contaminated" them.

I think he has issues OP. Did he even want the kittens?

He is being a bit weird but we are a real "animal" family apart from DS and we have to respect his boundaries - such as no animals in his room and DD has to keep certain animals away from him.
Your DS can wash his own clothes though

very bright

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Why don't you tell the kittens off? They will just think,"hoomin talking" and fall asleep.

They are ridulously cute.

Time to think about re-homing. The teen 😂

He wasn't bothered either way but likes to give them a sneaky cuddle when he thinks no one's watching.

Very bright, yes. Full of sense? No. Definitely not. He does do his own washing though!

He wouldn't hurt them wouldn't he?

Good point actually. I have to laugh at the howls of outrage when they slip past him, followed by him carrying them out one by one, on repeat as they scuttle back in as he's fetching the other one... Then he comes and tattles to me. WTF am I supposed to do about it? A stern telling off might pacify him.

No, he likes to loudly disapprove of them in front of us, then sneak off for a cuddle with the naughtiest one. He was very upset when our last cat died.

It was the use of the word 'contaminated' that got me tbh.
Is there any chance he has a mild allergy and can't quite articulate what is bothering him? (I am allergic to my cat and had to take piriton for a couple of weeks until it settled down! Okay now with my own cat, not so much when I forget and stroke someone else's cat!)

We're all allergic to cats but these two are hypoallergenic and haven't caused us any issues since the first couple of weeks. The older cat sheds like a beast despite being thoroughly brushed every day so I can understand him getting fur everywhere but the kittens don't.

Turn the Internet off until they apologise.

be sarcastic about it. sit both kittens on the sofa/wherever and give them a stern talking to.

They won't care, and your DS might learn its a waste of breath.