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Oh my god the arguing, the mess….

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Ppp2022 · 25/05/2022 20:10

one high functioning autistic eldest Dd 15 very academic. Has issues - highly competitive academically level 9. Obsessive about rocks. Etc social skills are non existent she gets wound up and can’t control it

younger daughter dd 10 also autistic, but has other multiple issues, behaviour and not academic - enjoys sport also has social skills.

they fight like cat and dog to the death. It’s dire nit picking shit day in and day out. Both are messy and hoard - rubbish etc
its shit.

lockdown was shit. Father not involved.

they argue from morning to night. Honest to god it’s a daily battle with their rooms etc

they are supposed to walk ten minutes to school as I drop
them off half way. Phoned by the teacher at youngest school as eldest had pushed her sister over on the way to school and pushed her in the road. She denied it and then admitted she had as her younger sister ran off.
taken her phone for a fortnight. But they argue all the time to the extent I now thing a one in and one out way is they way to go. This morning I drove youngest to school and eldest walked and I picked both up. But this evening they are at it again. Fight fight fight. We don’t have tv as they can’t cope.

eldest washed her bed sheets last weeks but despite having a clean sheet hasn’t put it on her bed - she’s sleeping on top of the duvet and I can’t get in her room due to stuff everywhere.

please be gentle as they are tipping a hard working full
time mum over the edge - yes they know how I feel

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PurpleSneakers · 26/05/2022 04:12

Didn't want to read and run. I really feel for you and it is so hard when kids are fighting non-stop. It is maddening and exhausting at the same time.

A couple of questions:

If the fighting has gotten worse lately, can you think of what might have prompted this?

If the fighting has been bad in the past, what has happened to make the situation better? This might have been something you have done like the consequence such as the one you applied of taking phones away or giving more one-on-one attention to one of them in turn (I know this is easier said than done, but when I do manage to do this, even 5 minutes, it does seem to make a positive difference in my children 's behaviour)

If you could pinpoint what may have helped in the past, this may be able to be applied again?

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