Hello, this is my first time posting and am really looking for some advice/support. I feel like I'm failing my Son as I don't know what I'm doing. I feel like I have no filter when it comes to telling my Son the reasons why this is happening and am no good at putting things across gently. Basically, my Son has no friends, he has been diagnosed with autism and his main difficulty is maintaining friendships and relationships. He was in a group of friends and struggled with the pecking order within the group and would often do silly things to get himself noticed or to get a laugh. Since a new child has joined this group, his nose has been pushed out of joint and has been bullying this child, to the extent no one wants him as a friend. Some of the boys have knocked on the door to tell him no one wants to play with him, which is down right cruel. After a particularly difficult evening just now, where he has been quite verbally aggressive, he's been told this is the reason he has no friends, if this is the way he speaks to people, he goes on then to brag how he's decked a younger child, and I get angry with this type of behaviour and tell him if he carries on the way he's going he will be the one that will get decked as he calls it as no one likes a bully, and that he has no friends because of this sort of behaviour. He knows right from wrong and to treat people how he would like to be treated. I feel like we are to blame, me and his Dad as we are no good at sugar coating things, we say it how it is, he has to be held accountable for his actions. Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I'm swimming in treacle right now.
