Life is falling apart in family

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My dad is becoming more distant to me, my brother, and my sister. He doesn't have much to say to us. Only "How was school?" or "Help me ______________." He only talks to my mum about business and he doesn't talk to her about non-work stuff on very few occassions.

My sister has a concussion. One of my Aspie friends clonked her on the head somehow and her concussion has gotten worse. She's having a few personality changes and my brother is upset at dad because he's only making us do work and not seeing us as his children, and there's a rift between us. I'm having more shutdowns in school and I feel like that the world is becoming more distant from me every day and I just want to disconnect.

I just want to know when it's over.

As we get older we have to redefine expectations of parents as "omnipotent providers" and learn to see them as individuals. Parents need to do this also - redefine their children as individuals.

It's a difficult task for both, made more difficult by environmental constraints.