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Threats from a 14 year old

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Namechange2272 · 13/01/2025 22:07

My 14 yr old DS thinks he can do what he wants. He has started going out with a girl and she is nice enough but his attitude stinks and has even before she came along. He goes out to see her when he wants and is neglecting his homework and is expecting a fully cooked dinner when he comes back at that time. Tonight when I collected him he demanded I let him go to the shop for a fizzy drink. When I said no he had a full on tantrum and started roaring and shouting. He went for DH and DH had to physically restrain him. He then smashed his phone and it is broken..

When he came downstairs again he demanded I brought his phone to be fixed tomorrow and when I said no he said he's not going into school tomorrow if I won't do it. When I told him I would cut off the phone completely if he doesn't start respecting us he told me he would hang himself.

I'm so fucking exhausted from him threatening to harm himself when he doesn't get his own way.

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motherofonegirl · 14/01/2025 22:37

Newyearpug · 14/01/2025 12:29

Autism is a spectrum,
it's also hereditary,
your dh has it ,your daughter has it .
He's masking at school and like a bottle of pop he explodes at home .
He's very clearly autistic,from what you are saying.

Spot on

Namechange2272 · 15/01/2025 10:43

motherofonegirl · 14/01/2025 22:37

Spot on

My husband and daughter don't have autism. A previous poster just decided they did. They have ADHD

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Tittat50 · 15/01/2025 10:55

Namechange2272 · 15/01/2025 10:43

My husband and daughter don't have autism. A previous poster just decided they did. They have ADHD

The more the thread unfolds the more certain, to the extent I will now tell you and accept a flaming

YOUR SON IS ND.(PDA Autistic, maybe ADHD also)

With ADHD relatives this is now rubber stamping it.

Things will get better in many ways when he's diagnosed trust me.

Get the poor kid assessed properly.

I'd be paying personally. I had to loan money to get this sorted in our case. Savings obliterated - but we had to know.

Naughty1205 · 15/01/2025 14:45

Tittat50 · 15/01/2025 10:55

The more the thread unfolds the more certain, to the extent I will now tell you and accept a flaming

YOUR SON IS ND.(PDA Autistic, maybe ADHD also)

With ADHD relatives this is now rubber stamping it.

Things will get better in many ways when he's diagnosed trust me.

Get the poor kid assessed properly.

I'd be paying personally. I had to loan money to get this sorted in our case. Savings obliterated - but we had to know.

100%. Please get your son properly assessed. The autism spectrum is very wide.

izimbra · 22/01/2025 22:51

tothelefttotheleft · 14/01/2025 00:17

@izimbra

Do you have contact with your daughter now?

Yes. She's 25 and lives at home now (after having moved out at 18 and then again at 20). We have a good relationship and she has a very responsible, hard job (she works in prisoner resettlement). We talk about how grim her adolescence was for her and for us. She doesn't understand why she was the way she was. It really broke me, and damaged the mental health of my other two children badly. Looking back it it now, it seems like a horrible dream that went on for years. :-(.

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