She shoved my husband's best friend Chris and he fell in the pool on the fourth. His phone is ruined and he sprained his ankle. Chris wanted to press charges. We asked her what happened. She said he gave her
something she was thought was a snack but it was a edible and it made her feel crazy. He said that's not what happened.
She is 15. she has high functioning autism . She is very intelligent but her social skills are awful. She dislikes parties and prefers to be in her room playing fortnite with her dog . We thought she should work on her social skills.She has always hated I mean Really hated this guy for no reason . He is a perfectly nice guy.
He says she pushed him in unprovoked.
Her dad my ex wants to pull her out of there. He wants custody. She wants to live with her dad or grandma. They spoil her. I feel she should stay in a tough love wilderness camp to help her.if she does anything remotely wrong or annoys me I will not hesitate to have her taken to juvenile hall.then she can kiss university of cal Berkeley goodbye.We both told her that .I don't know what to think or who to believe.
Our friend Chris got kicked out of his house by his wife and is staying here. My daughter doesn't want to come back here? I have explained if she doesn't do whatever adults say we can send her to juvenile hall.
I can’t tell if this is for real or not, but this site has been so pathetic lately, that I’ll respond.
Psych hospitals are for treating serious mental health issues, where children (or adults) pose a serious threat to themselves or others and can’t be kept safe or stable at home. You are not describing anything like that. I have a hard time believing the hospital would have admitted her if you were completely honest with them about your concerns, but maybe you have good insurance and found a mediocre hospital you could convince she needed hospitalization. I don’t know, but this sounds highly questionable to me. If your question is “did I do the right thing”, the answer is “no.”
Chris sounds like a jerk. Anyone who wants to press charges against any 15 year old girl for pushing him in a pool, let alone a 15 year old with autism, is not a “perfectly nice guy.” Obviously she shouldn’t have pushed him, and I would probably hold her accountable for helping pay for the phone, but the fact that you have dismissed her very serious concerns about him and that you have allowed him to live with you, makes me feel like her actions are pretty understandable.
Let her live with dad or grandma. You sound way too angry with her to be an effective parent. If you want to work on your relationship with her, first, kick Chris out, and second get some counseling for yourself so that you can participate in family counseling with her from a place of compassion and not frustration. Best of luck to you.
Of course it’s not real.
Basically putting a child in a mental hospital because she won’t ‘be nice’ to a ‘friend’ of the family.
Do you know what trafficking / pimping is?
Yeah, lots of drama here… Of course she shouldn’t have pushed him into the pool, but how exactly would this grown adult man ‘press charges’ against a 15 year old? And why? Anyway, I’ll just echo what RN L said. You sound like you need a break from living with/raising your daughter, and she (wisely) realizes that she needs to live with someone else. Good luck with it.