Roll call for parents/carers to SN teens and young adults. Come and say hello

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Hello

This is a surprisingly quiet corner of MN isn’t it? I wonder if that’s because we are all so skilled in hiding what’s going on and not talking about the good, the bad and the ugly?

I feel quite sad that so many posts are left unanswered or just a few supportive replies. where are we all? are we all off trying to deal with life and then too exhausted to do anything further than read?

Come and say hello, maybe we could have our own nobdies clique, 1 thread just for us. (I’ve been on MN for years, Nobdies was a nobody replies to my thread post years ago, it run for many, many threads and started with just a hello)

DD13 is diagnosed and medicated for ADHD & ODD. Today the consultant said she wants to refer for an ASD assessment so we continue the long road of doing our best.

to you all

Hello - I started posting on mumsnet when my son was a pre-schooler. Spent a lot of time on the SN boards. He's now in his twenties, so pleased to see a corner for the adults!

He lives 5 minutes from us in his own home with 24 hour 2:1 support. It was terribly difficult to get that sorted and set up but it is working well. Always feels very fragile with ds1 - things can go very wrong very quickly with him so I don't like to tempt fate by saying how brilliant it is in case I am tempting fate!

Another old timer here, not posted for a long time, used to mainly post about DS, now 19. No idea what’s going to happen for his/our future as he leaves school July, with no future sorted and adult social care is dire! He was always a struggle during children’s services so expected adult life to fall apart! As for me, I’m not coping at all but plodding, sorry to sound negative. Did come here looking for advice on different stuff but wandered here!

Devilish lovely to "see" you again and really pleased to hear that DS1 is able to live alone.

We aren't in anyway near your particular ballpark but our own challenge DS2 is in his 30s and married with 2 DC. Still worried about him and we get a lot of phone calls on the lines of "should he be doing this?" and "what is this rash?".

What did make me particularly angry was that after 15 months of constant babysitting at very short notice and for extended periods of time they just decided to move away (to be near her DM) with hardly any notice, and just went. He regrets it now.

DS1 got a dx of ASD finally at the age of 33. Docs have been telling me since he was 4 that there was nothing wrong with him