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Adult SD with Autism is treated by father like a queen - just want to vent
Just needed to vent and this is the best place to do it withou being reprimanded by my spouse for "hating his children, etc. etc.", so here goes.
Autistic Adult Step Daughter doesn't work
Not sure if I'm looking for advice on how to react or just an avenue to vent my frustrations.
Background: I have a 23 Autistic Step Daughter. She's completely verbal, graduated from High School and from a Skills Vocational School and has no physical limitations. Her maturity level is that of a 13 year old. Her mental level is probably around the same or somewhat older. She lives with her mother half the month and with her father and I the remainder. Her father is retired and I work full time.
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I don't know what to do.
I am not sure that I'm cut out for the life I consiciously stepped into with my current husband and his daughter. Background, we have been together for four years and married for only four months. He is a recovering alcoholic and struggled with the disease for two long years of which I helped him to seek treatment. He neglected his daughter during that time and now he's "making up for what he lost out on". He has two grown daugthers with one being what he refers too as "high functionining autism". She is 22 years old and doesn't do anything. She lives with her mother during the week a
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