I am at a loss how to help my almost 17 year-old son. Very smart has lots of anxiety to Graphia and Asperger’s/high functioning autism. He was diagnosed with a AU late at 15 everyone felt the things that he was doing was anxiety based or more related to the ADHD. Last spring at the end of 10th grade thanks took a turn for the worse and he stopped wanting to go to school at all. The class is he enjoyed he no longer enjoyed. He started failing classes that he’s never failed before we started the fall in a public school but more like a credit recovery work at your own pace by winter break he was only had a 55% attendance. Which did not meet the criteria for him to stay there. He is under the special education umbrella. I am a school counselor with 34 years in public school and very well educated in the aspects of public school and accommodations and supports when he was asked to leave the school from the fall to avoid me being involved in truancy court here in the state of Texas. I enrolled him in an online school that’s an alignment with our state TEKS so that if he could transition back into the public school, he would be able to without losing credits. I still work full-time so he’s attending the online school in my elderly parents house. They’re in their mid 80s and just trying to help supervise to be sure that we’re not just cruising YouTube. The online platform does not seem to be working out for him. I’m trying to give him choices and control over the situation but every time he hits a roadblock, he’s not pushing with initiative or asking for help or accepting the help that’s there and is not being successful being a single parent. I don’t have the luxury of not working and find myself frustrated to the point of tears on a regular basis, I don’t know how to help my son. He has therapy every other week. He takes medication for anxiety. He’s a very empathetic, incompetent young man. I just don’t know what to do anymore.

Posted by dwcockrill at 2025-02-06 02:40:54 UTC