hi,was very interested when i read your post ,your situation is very simular to mine ,my daughter is at uni and is 23 ...she is home for the summer now and i was really dreading it as i am afraid to say anything, or even not saying anything is wrong......and set her off........she has always been 'different from other children' and has suffered from depression for ever...diagnosed at 15.........she also has ocd........but it was her who found asd on the internet and showed me.......she wants to be diagnosed as then she will feel she has a reason to be different........she started to be verbally abusive and at first i retalliated but that made everything worse...........so i sat on the computer for days reading every thing i could.......and it seems that not responding is the best cause of action.....so now when she starts off i get as far away as i can...usually the loo!!!! and when she is calm i explain to her that i will not talk to her untill ' I ' think she is calm enough.........no magic cure but does seem to be getting some sort of result......i think i might make the summer holidays through without resorting to prozac [again]..........my biggest problem at the moment is that she is a hoarder and my house is full of her 'possessions'.......i dont say a word about her room.....but the mess is spilling over the whole house.....if i say anything ,she says she cant help it ,'it's her condition' and i always make it worse by moaning at her....some logic there ,'i think' .....sorry for going on and getting off the subject.......but once i get going you cant stop me........