and glitter and rainbows and OMG PONIES!!!1!!1!1!!!!1!!!!
Well your son can not be diagnosed with ASPD until the age of 18 so are you sure it is not a conduct disorder or oppositional defiant disorder (I remember getting this one). Yeah your step son sounds like a fruit basket the hell is up with the insolent child. He needs a good ass beating.
by AlteregoBy cowering in fear of him, you are reinforcing his belief that he is invincible. Put the little bugger in his place by instituting firm, clearly defined boundaries and consistently implelementing severe consequences whenever they are transgressed.
Are you so weak that you will allow a 12 year old, defiant little boy with an authority problem to entirely disrupt your family? Put the kid in his place, by whatever means necessary, without resorting to abuse.
Exactly what you should have done before that little shit pot recognized how much power he holds over you all. 12 hmmm I don't know Alterego it is not too late to really start this discipline. Oh yeah no abuse you will only fuck him up worse