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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/Liro0607 on 2026-05-15 15:12:41+00:00.

My friend and I both have autism, both From Virginia. He is 17 and will turn 18 this year. He started living with his mom and grandma a few months ago, and it has been awful for him. His mother verbally abuses him so much that he feels depressed and overwhelmed a lot of the time. Every day is just argument after argument. He never had depression before, but since moving there everything is going wrong. He has tried to argue back and tell his mom to stop yelling, but she just keeps going.

Then it got worse. His mom lied and used the system against him. She had him put in a mental hospital for a week, saying he was aggressive and wanted to hurt himself. None of that was true. He was there and it was terrible. They didn't tell him about his medication and tried to put him on Seroquel, which is a really strong antipsychotic. He wasn't having a bad episode or hurting himself. His mom just talked to the doctors and made up a story to make him look worse.

I am close with his brother too. Unfortunately this is exactly what his mom did to him. She doesn't care about medication side effects, she just wants to "calm him" She put him on strong antipsychotics all through his childhood and teenage years until he developed IBS, obesity, and dystonia. His mom does not care about side effects. She always tries to abuse the system and put them in the hospital.

So my friend was there for a week, but then she put him in a hospital again. This time she lied to him and made him sign himself in. He was there for two and a half weeks. As far as his brother and I know, they put him on Latuda plus Clonodine extended release. It was so much that he was peeing himself every night because of the medication. The worst part is that nobody told him about his treatment and nobody told him about his discharge plan either.

It gets worse. We don't know what else they are trying to do, but his mom talked to his brother while I was there. She was angry and said he needs a mood stabilizer because he is out of control. Keep in mind he does not have a mood disorder. He was just depressed because of his mom. Now he is at home. He has been asking about the medicines but they refuse to show him or tell him. They also refuse to explain anything and get aggressive when he tries to insist. He is getting slower and seems sedated and has gained weight since coming back from the hospital. We believe they are giving him more stuff than he is supposed to get, like more antipsychotics. He really does not know what to do and he is not even allowed to have a phone.

Remember, he is not psychotic. He is not depressed or suicidal. He is not aggressive or anything. He is being put on medication he does not need and he is not being told anything. They are refusing him his right to know.

I am really worried about his safety because me and his brother know his mom is telling the psychiatrist he is aggressive so they will increase his doses or try really strong antipsychotics. We need help. We want to know what he can do to help himself. We want to reach an advocate or someone to report the abuse. They are over medicating him. On top of that, they are denying him his noise canceling headphones even though he is really noise sensitive, and they are forcing him to do ABA therapy that he hates. He says they are trying to make him into something he is not.

Edit: his brother and i are able to contact him through his mom or grandma's, he's scared of them yelling and scared of creating an argument so has been taking these medications we don't even know about we just know the clonodine for now. But we do know they're hiding and also that he is something else they don't want us to know about, his mom used to tell his brother about the medicines my friend is taking but since they tried latuda she started getting passive aggressive and stopped telling us. But he was really clear and doesn't wanna be in a lot of medication that he doesn't need