I am trying to find anything online that can help me get it right.
I am a single parent trying to navigate this period of time when my son is becoming an adult. We are constantly arguing and I know am doing it all wrong but don’t know how to fix it.
When he first got his diagnosis at 5, I read everything, listened to everyone and though it didn’t seem like it then, I look back and I think maybe I was doing an okay job, but now I just haven’t got a clue.
I want to say the right thing but everything he says just confuses me and makes me angry that he doesn’t get it and then it makes me feel guilty that I get so angry. I don’t understand him like I did, I know I shouldn’t but I expect him to know things as an adult, to know what’s right and wrong. I feel like I have forgotten everything I ever learnt about autism. When he says things like “how am I going to cope if my own mother doesn’t understand me” the guilt just kills me but I don’t know how to get it right.
Basically I am reaching out for any kind of advice, whether that’s reading material or a telling off!
Apologies if this doesn’t make much sense but hopefully someone out there gets it.
