I had a pretty kick butt day. I stuck to my diet, I worked out, I did a load of towels before we ran out in my bathroom and I had a nice lunch visit with a friend. As life tends to happen I hit a fail. I homeschool my 17 year old autistic son, he's super high functioning and does most of his work independently. Well I've been trying to encourage him to do some writing, this seems to be one of his biggest struggles putting his thoughts and feelings into complete sentences. So after sitting down with him this evening and getting zero feedback I had to do the delicate dance of letting him know the schedule was going to change and I would be taking a more active role in his daily work all while not pissing him off or making him think I thought he couldn't handle it. I get so discouraged by his lack of want to. I know as he grows older and we talk to him about driving and starting a job he seems to retreat but still wants to move on with life. I have no idea how to transition him into the real world. All the advice I can get online is to try different behavioral therapists to help him navigate this process, but lets be honest, we live in one of the poorest counties in rural Oklahoma. The closest counselors I've found are more than two hours away and I have two typical teenage daughters to manage too. Forget about getting insurance to pay any of it. Just one of those days I feel like I'm letting him down.
Why do we do this to ourselves? I know parenting is totally trial and error but how much error room is there? I really don't want a moody 30 year old in my house later in life.
When you find the instruction book send it my way please.
