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Disclaimer: I live with two women (my wife and our girlfriend/wife in a closed polyamorous triad). We have two children, both autistic, boy (11), and girl (9).
In the best of times, home life is hard. Our kids are verbal, but their behavioral issues are long and difficult. We have a great support structure of respite workers, social workers, their school, and counselors/physcologists that help us manage their treatment and care. Every day is a struggle because not only are they individually hard to manage, but they mix like oil and water and they are constantly fighting and usually the boy hurts the girl physically in some way due to neither of them following direction to leave each other alone.
With the self-isolation situation of Covid-19 and my wife and I working from home (our girlfriend works at a store, so she is gone 20-25 hours a week), and our kids losing the structured environment, all hell has broken loose. The kids have no structure, no defined activities other than what we can come up with for them when we aren't trying to work or handle ourselves. None of us can afford to just take off work and manage them full time, but even if we could, that still wouldn't make it any less miserable. They are stir-crazy, bored, and becoming destructive towards themselves, the house, and us adults. The number of bruises we all have from trying to handle them when they have meltdowns is growing. And there's no one to call for help. No one will come to the house. We are completely on our own. And we are sinking, fast.
I'm not looking for specific help, I just wanted to rant and whine. Thanks for reading.
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