We had a great week with a visit from our adult son.  He had a good week very little outburst and we really enjoyed having him home. We had planed to let him spend the night with an old respite provider that still keeps in tough with our son.  Chris had a terrible blow up he ran out of the apartment across the street and ran into a mini mart. This is the day we are going to take him back to his group home 2 1/2 hours away. The reason for this major uproar was because the respite provider did not take him out to Home Depot. The provider took Chis back to say he was sorry for his behavior at the Mini mart, since he trashed a counter during the outburst.  Chris has a very hard time waiting for anything and he is obsessed with hardware stores and just seems to loose it when he does not get to go. We could deal with these outburst when he was little but now that he is a full grown young man it is not cute and can put him in real danger. He left just an hour ago and he left in tears because he was first going back and second because of his behavior. I miss him already and sorry that such a wonderful visit ended with such an outburst, but that is away it goes with autism. Just needed to vent  to all of you who understand the ups and downs of autism.