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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  • Hi Jennifer,

    I suffer from terrible concentration too (part of asd so I am told) this is possibly the case for your daughter too. Should you have taken things more seriously? Don't blame yourself, guilt will only hold you back. You have not gone 'wrong', there is nothing 'wrong' with daughter. She think/feel/see/react differently she is not being difficult etc. I honestly think there are 2 different species of human!

    "disappointment, shame or embarrasment" these are my feelings, asd driven. I naturally have plenty of these feelings but I find the world outside my home a hostile, scary, confusing, place. The people in it don't understand me and I truly don't understand them.

    I know you daughter is still a child but thought this link might help, even if just a tiny bit.

    take care

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  • Hi Jennifer,

    I suffer from terrible concentration too (part of asd so I am told) this is possibly the case for your daughter too. Should you have taken things more seriously? Don't blame yourself, guilt will only hold you back. You have not gone 'wrong', there is nothing 'wrong' with daughter. She think/feel/see/react differently she is not being difficult etc. I honestly think there are 2 different species of human!

    "disappointment, shame or embarrasment" these are my feelings, asd driven. I naturally have plenty of these feelings but I find the world outside my home a hostile, scary, confusing, place. The people in it don't understand me and I truly don't understand them.

    I know you daughter is still a child but thought this link might help, even if just a tiny bit.

    take care

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