MooMoo!
New Yorker
My family, I love them, but they're a bunch of sociopaths.
My brother left his job recently and wont go back to it despite his boss apparently offering him it back. He hasn't said why he left, he's extremely shy, socially inept and doesn't leave the house or have friends. He never really has ever since he was a child. He doesn't get on with my dad and my mum has tried (in her less than subtle ways) to get him to find work, sign on, move out or a combination of the three. Any sort of confrontation in this manner almost certainly ends in arguments and potential violence.
I'm only home for Summer as I'm at university, and after this year I have no intention of moving back home, so I can't spend the rest of my life worrying about whether they're all going to kill each other. What do you do in a situation like this? Is there any legal advice people can give? Is there any way to force my brother out the house? I don't want him to be forced out, but he leaves us very little choice. He sits in his room 24/7 unless we convince him to go out in the car with us somewhere. This isn't a recent development, he's been like this for at least 10 years. It's a massive waste of a life, but we have no idea how to motivate him to do anything at all. I'm also fairly certain he has some form of autism, maybe aspergers, but he's never been diagnosed as such.
The only way I can cope with this now is by being in university and just trying to blank the whole family situation out of my mind, otherwise I live every day in constant terror that they're fighting, physically or verbally.
My brother left his job recently and wont go back to it despite his boss apparently offering him it back. He hasn't said why he left, he's extremely shy, socially inept and doesn't leave the house or have friends. He never really has ever since he was a child. He doesn't get on with my dad and my mum has tried (in her less than subtle ways) to get him to find work, sign on, move out or a combination of the three. Any sort of confrontation in this manner almost certainly ends in arguments and potential violence.
I'm only home for Summer as I'm at university, and after this year I have no intention of moving back home, so I can't spend the rest of my life worrying about whether they're all going to kill each other. What do you do in a situation like this? Is there any legal advice people can give? Is there any way to force my brother out the house? I don't want him to be forced out, but he leaves us very little choice. He sits in his room 24/7 unless we convince him to go out in the car with us somewhere. This isn't a recent development, he's been like this for at least 10 years. It's a massive waste of a life, but we have no idea how to motivate him to do anything at all. I'm also fairly certain he has some form of autism, maybe aspergers, but he's never been diagnosed as such.
The only way I can cope with this now is by being in university and just trying to blank the whole family situation out of my mind, otherwise I live every day in constant terror that they're fighting, physically or verbally.