THE SISTER LOCKED AWAY

A 16-year-old says his sister's violence got so bad that his parents had to lock his bedroom door, call the cops, and eventually send her out of the house for good.

The sister is 18 now, but her problems started much earlier. She was diagnosed with autism as a toddler, and for years the family says that diagnosis was used to explain almost everything that went wrong. She had violent outbursts at everyone, then would shut down for hours or even days. Sometimes she would not speak at all.

As she got older, the situation changed in ways that made the house feel even more unstable. She said she could hear things no one else could. She became fixated on people supposedly trying to bother her, especially if someone was whistling or chewing gum. Those small sounds could set off intense rages.

The family reached a breaking point and called the police. A CPS case worker got involved because the parents were looking for more help. By then, the sister had started targeting the poster, her 16-year-old sibling. Being in the same room became dangerous. The parents installed a lock on his door, and he learned to block it to keep her out.

The last day she was removed from the home made the danger plain. While the CPS case worker was there, she chased him again. The parents called the cops, and officers told them someone needed to find somewhere for her from the case worker. She was placed in a facility for kids with issues like hers.

For the first two years, the facility said it was only autism and that she needed more therapies. Later, staff began to think something else might be going on. The poster says he does not know whether she was ever re-diagnosed.

Now the parents visit her on a set schedule. He does not, and his parents support that choice. But the rest of the family does not. Extended family on both sides are furious that the parents kept her in the facility and later allowed her to be transferred somewhere else for adults instead of teenagers.

The poster has defended his parents twice, and both times it turned into an argument. Relatives accused him of being cold, harsh, and acting like he did not care that his sister was "locked away for life." He pushed back. He said, "she could have killed one of us," and pointed out that intent is not required for that risk. He also told them they never had to live with her and that his parents had to think about him too.

When relatives said, "I don't understand that she can't help it," and "I should understand it," he said, "I think life is better without her at home." He also admitted, "I don't care more about my sister."

After the blowup, the family left while the parents were still angry that their own relatives had argued with him in the first place.