Parents of children with a neuropsychiatric disorder faces a lot of difficulties regarding their role as a parent. The purpose of this study is to gain a better knowledge of the challenges and needs the parents experience due to their child’s disorder. The study was based on theories of stigma and salutogenesis. By analyzing autobiographies with a narrative thematic method, we studied the subject from the parents’ perspective. Earlier studies have found that parents of children with neuropsychiatric disorders faces a variety of challenges but also find ways to cope with the situation. We found two major challenges and a variety of ways in which the parents cope with this. The main difficulties we found was the stigmatization, including both general stigmatization as well as family stigmatization and self-stigmatization, and the lack of time and energy the parents experience. When it comes to handling the everyday life, we identified four key aspects: support, a general life balance, interpersonal traits and understanding and acceptance from others.  The findings indicate that there is a connection between stigmatization and how the everyday life is handled due to stigmatization interfering with all aspects of the parents’ life.