I’m on my own with my children , including a 16 year old boy.
He has become withdrawn and sullen and stopped going to school despite the school’s support and my best efforts to get him to go. He moved school at his own request and has only attended for one term. His school have been very helpful.
He has developed OCD behaviours and is now verbally abusive to me, sometimes physically pushing me too. He yells and swears at me from one end of the house to the other. He is on the Autistic spectrum. He swears at his younger siblings.
He sleeps all day and is awake most of the night. He only eats at night and yells at me as he doesn’t think I make him enough food. He says he’s going to report me for neglect as I don’t feed him enough and he wants me to lose my job.
He takes long showers in the early hours, waking us all up and drains all my hot water. I often don’t have enough hot water to take a shower in the morning before work. He has reset my heating times without my knowledge so my heating was on for 5 hours at night. He’s going to financially ruin me. He says I just have to pay for it and laughs at me.
He was offered a CAHMS appointment but didn’t attend. I asked for help from social services but they said we didn’t qualify.
I get no respite. His dad is nearby but is no support in all of this. I’m honestly scared of him.