Can You Offer Help for Parents of Adult Children with Asperger Syndrome?
#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}if(zs>0){zSB(3,3)}else{gEI(“spacer”).style.display=’none’;gEI(“sidebar”).style.display=’none’} If it’s tough to be the parent of a child with autism, it may be even tougher to be the parent of an adult with autism. I recently received requests for help from two families, and I’m hoping that readers can offer insights from their own experience. In both of these cases, a young man with Asperger syndrome is having a very hard time managing his own day to day life and career, and his difficulties are rebounding on a parent. In the first case, an adult child with Asperger syndrome has “taken over” his mother’s home, and made life very difficult for her: I am the grandmother of an Asperger boy-19 years old. His parents divorced 2 years ago and he lives with his mother but he has become a displinary problem. My daughter is at wits end and is not sure how to proceed. He is very disrespectful, curses at her, she cannot make any noise in the home
