My 18 year old daughter who has ADHD and Autism was exploited which sadly resulted in serious sexual and physical assault. She is very vulnerable which authorities have now also realised and support has been put in place.
Understandably her behaviour has been up and down since the assault but over the past few days she has been very withdrawn, angry and hostile towards us compared to how she has been. She is in her bed all day and awake all night and is very secretive over her phone and was saying she is dropping all charges and doesn’t want to speak to anyone else. She self harmed quite badly a few days ago. When I try and talk to her she just screams at me. I don’t know how to deal with the situation or how to support her through this. As one minute she is giving me cuddles and won’t let me go anywhere without her then the next minute she is saying she hates me and won’t even associate with us.