My parents are divorced. I live with my mom and my -year old brat of an autistic sister (her behavior is insanely bad, even for an autistic kid). I am . My dad lives five minutes away, and I go over there to watch sports with him sometimes, but I am mostly at my house. I have grandparents who live mins away who I see all the time and cousins who live about minutes away, whom I almost never see. I am going to lose my mind over my home life. If I said it was awful about -% of the time, that would be an understatement. The only time it is okay is when my sister is behaving, which is almost never nowadays. She has streaks where her behavior is great and streaks when it is so bad I think she needs to be put in a home, and right now it is almost never. This is what it was like before. I was upstairs in my room, and my sister was crying and screaming for some reason, and it was nonstop crying and screaming, and I could hear my mother yelling, “Shut up!!!”. I just had music playing through earbuds on my iPod, along with regular foam headphones over them, and it still didn’t drive out the noise. It is always like this. What should I do about this? There is some help for my sister, but it doesn’t last until late at night like it should. Once the help leaves, she becomes a brat again. She hates being home. I would rather not move in with family that lives nearby, just because of school and stuff. But when she is misbehaving, my house is absolute chaos.
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Make jokes about it. Scream louder than she does or sing really loud. If you let it get to you, your sister wins and she gets worse. Rewarding her antisocial behavior does no one any good.
Also talk to your parents and grandparents whoever is giving care to your sister or to whatever school she goes to about your sister. Obviously, her treatment is not helping her. Her teachers and caretakers and the whole family need a plan for dealing with her. This is for her good and everyone else’s good also.
Yelling “shut up” does not help. Ignoring her may work better or putting her in a place where she can’t hurt herself and leaving her alone may help. Get expert help and a plan for dealing with her unacceptable behavior.