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Teenage daughter

JenniferTree

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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  • We've been through the same with my brother and we're still really struggling with it so I have a lot of sympothy for your situation. My brother used to be really close to my mum but then his behaviour got a lot worse and started hating my mum and he went through a particularly bad stage which lasted a few weeks. He got over it eventually. It sounds like you are doing the best that you can. I think you have to get used to the idea that you'll have to make comprimises with your child that you'd never think you'd make, which is difficult. You try and get her to school everyday and if that ends up being 4/5 days a week then thats okay, it was the same with my brother, he rarely did all 5 days and my school used to just say get him in if you can. Its difficult to keep boundaries while making allowences for autism, your daughter sounds like my brother in that its difficult to tell where the autism begins and ends and what you should let slide and what you should be strict on. You can only take it a day at a time and keep on working with the helpers at school. Hope you get some help soon.

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  • We've been through the same with my brother and we're still really struggling with it so I have a lot of sympothy for your situation. My brother used to be really close to my mum but then his behaviour got a lot worse and started hating my mum and he went through a particularly bad stage which lasted a few weeks. He got over it eventually. It sounds like you are doing the best that you can. I think you have to get used to the idea that you'll have to make comprimises with your child that you'd never think you'd make, which is difficult. You try and get her to school everyday and if that ends up being 4/5 days a week then thats okay, it was the same with my brother, he rarely did all 5 days and my school used to just say get him in if you can. Its difficult to keep boundaries while making allowences for autism, your daughter sounds like my brother in that its difficult to tell where the autism begins and ends and what you should let slide and what you should be strict on. You can only take it a day at a time and keep on working with the helpers at school. Hope you get some help soon.

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