Teenage daughter

My teenage daughter is being difficult.  Out of pure hostility she has emptied cleaning fluids on the floor, and toy beads over the stairs and has emptied shaving foam all over the bathroom door.  She won't clean up.  We, her parents, are powerless in that regard.  Now she has put her coat on and gone out.  Normally she's a house-body and hardly ever goes out.  Because it's in the middle of the day, I'm not worried.  I believe that she'll come back when things start getting difficult/scary - she doesn't like the dark.  She gives us the silent treatment, so it's hard to communicate with her.  If anybody has been through this kind of behaviour, I would appreciate any advice.  Unless you have, you couldn't understand how awful it is to have a teenager that is miserable most of the time, and so unreasonable.

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  • Age issue: Well pointed out recombinantsocks. I assumed teenage daughter was an older teen. (No idea why!) Having said that I would have loved to have had somewhere like this to turn to - what I wouldn't like is the responsibility of giving advice to a young one on here. I would like to think that one of us would be able to direct her to somewhere though, even if it was to the nas helpline - to lead her to the best place. 

    I hope Mum and Daughter can find a way through. This wont happen until teenager can be understood because until then she can't express where she needs help.  I believe that the love is absolutely there but asd gives such an enormous barrier as far as communication goes.

    I actually truly can't bear to think of her suffering alone.

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  • Age issue: Well pointed out recombinantsocks. I assumed teenage daughter was an older teen. (No idea why!) Having said that I would have loved to have had somewhere like this to turn to - what I wouldn't like is the responsibility of giving advice to a young one on here. I would like to think that one of us would be able to direct her to somewhere though, even if it was to the nas helpline - to lead her to the best place. 

    I hope Mum and Daughter can find a way through. This wont happen until teenager can be understood because until then she can't express where she needs help.  I believe that the love is absolutely there but asd gives such an enormous barrier as far as communication goes.

    I actually truly can't bear to think of her suffering alone.

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