My grown-up son is a rage-filled bully who believes in conspiracy theories

Q My son is in his thirties and lives abroad. He has become angry, bitter and a bully to me and his sister. He is consumed by conspiracy theories, in particular that Covid is a hoax and that vaccines will kill us. When I refused to apologise for vaccinating him as a child, he wished me “a quick and painless death”.

As a child he was sensitive, kind and shy. He acknowledges a happy childhood. He was academically able and has a degree. I believe him to be neurodiverse: he has absolute focus on particular areas of learning, an inability to multitask and make small talk, and shows bluntness and lack of restraint when people are upset by him. He smoked cannabis a lot as

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