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[quote=Anonymous]I have ASD son and parenting him is a full time job.  Everything has to be explained.  It's exhausting.  Things that he should be able to do at his age, he can't.  Add to it his anxiety and ADHD and we need a very structured household.

How I feel about my child and my role as a parent is very different than how I feel as a wife and my role as a spouse.  My job as a parent is to help my kid become a functioning adult.  My role as a spouse is to be a partner with someone.  If I have to parent my spouse, it's not working for me.

No matter how many times people share or explain what it's like to be a parent, even to a neurotypical kid, until you're doing it, you really have no idea.  A person that is able to manage their own life or even share in the life of 2 capable adults can be reduced to a pile of ineptitude once a kid shows up.  Now, not only are you responsible for yourself, you're responsible for someone else and for some people it's just overwhelming.  You can't return a kid so you have to figure it out but it's a shock and some people just don't adapt.

What I tolerate from my kid, I would never tolerate from a spouse.  I don't think how your sister feels about her husband can be correlated to how she feels about her child.[/quote]

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