autistic adult child’s anger

we are at our wits end and need help and just don’t know what to do. We are a family of 4., Mum, Dad and grown up kids all living at home. Our son was diagnosed with HFA at 12. We have been through years of trying to understand him and trying to ignore the way he speaks to us all. He is so condescending, snappy and aggressive in his manner. We walk around on eggshells the majority of the time and family life is awful. We have tried talking to him but he gets defensive and then somehow manages to turn it around so that we feel we are the ones with the problem. It’s so hard to describe how hard it is living with him but it has got so bad now that his older siblings talking about moving out because they can’t stand it any more. is this constant miserable, aggressive tone in autism and how do you cope with it. I would really appreciate some help/advice, especially for our other grown up child .

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  • Thanks for your responses. i do think there is a lot more going on, i think he is depressed and has been for some time. He has only recently started to accept his diagnosis so maybe that is what he is struggling with. i suggested a counsellor but he just says they are rubbish. I’m afraid i think asking him to leave is just not an option as i would worry about his mental health at the moment if he was in his own 

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  • Thanks for your responses. i do think there is a lot more going on, i think he is depressed and has been for some time. He has only recently started to accept his diagnosis so maybe that is what he is struggling with. i suggested a counsellor but he just says they are rubbish. I’m afraid i think asking him to leave is just not an option as i would worry about his mental health at the moment if he was in his own 

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