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Difficult term

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Frith2013 · 05/07/2017 08:46

Son2 (year 9) is in an ASD base within a mainstream high school.

All good until this term when he feels threatened and on Tuesday, someone took his shoe and flushed it down the toilet. The shoe boy is in isolation now.

My son is also in isolation today for calling his TA a "spacko" yesterday. He told me he had no idea what it meant but had heard it on a youtube video.

Yesterday's incident is not normal for him although he is very demanding, argumentative etc at school.

He is horrible to me all day long now, shouting and swearing, EXTREMELY demanding of my time and paranoid that I hate him, up to the point that I have shown him my text messages to my friends to prove that I don't talk about him negatively.

He has a little cry each morning before school and says he hates it. Staff say he is fine when he gets there.

He has gone off in his taxi this a.m (after the usual yelling at me to get his trainers etc) and is saying he won't go in on Thursday or Friday.

I've said his PlayStation will go away until Monday, if that happens.

I had the usual "I shall go and live with daddy". If I really stand up to him (son, not exh, who isn't remotely interested in him) I get objects thrown at me, pushed, screamed at our (my least favourite) he walks round with his arm stuck out sweeping everything off shelves and work surfaces on to the floor.

School just keep applying more discipline and he hates it more and more.i mentioned his hitting me yesterday (he's done it all his life do I just took it for granted) and now they want to tell their Child Protection person (?)

Sorry for the garbled message.

Oh yes - single parent, no support, no friends locally, no money/time etc! Solutions must be free and achievable. And miles from nearest facilities AND he has selective mutism and won't cooperate with any professionals at all.

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Shybutnotretiring · 05/07/2017 23:28

I'm a single parent too and the no money no time vortex can really make you feel life has got you over a barrel. I think you should find a new ASD special school for him since he is hating school at the moment. I think the school's isolation punishment for your son is over the top and don't like the sound of them just piling on the discipline. Appreciate the timing is not good with him being in year 9.

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