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Toilet issues help!

Mush

Hi my ten year old son is in the process of an Aspergers diagnosis. He won't use the toilets at school despite the SENCO giving him a pass to a private toilet, a photo on reception so he isn't questioned and today even escorting him there! Any one else had same issues and any advice gratefully received

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  • Just a thought..,  how about just letting him wash his hands there in the morning first thing. Nothing to do with doing the toilet as yet. That way he is functioning in the space and over time may acclimatise. You could put a few of his drawings on the wall. He needs to connect to space in his own comfortable path way,, you may find that the old toilets have affected him, so maybe you could call it the loo to seperate the perception of negative function. On a personal note, going to the normal toilets for me was hell in school, it was the kid psychogene bullies zone and then in secondary high school it was there smoking and head flushing zone, ah the wonderful blessings of a ghetto upbringing, were autism was not noticed, I still suffer from those cognitive scars. O'Well, joy to the world, good luck and blessings too the wee guy.

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  • Just a thought..,  how about just letting him wash his hands there in the morning first thing. Nothing to do with doing the toilet as yet. That way he is functioning in the space and over time may acclimatise. You could put a few of his drawings on the wall. He needs to connect to space in his own comfortable path way,, you may find that the old toilets have affected him, so maybe you could call it the loo to seperate the perception of negative function. On a personal note, going to the normal toilets for me was hell in school, it was the kid psychogene bullies zone and then in secondary high school it was there smoking and head flushing zone, ah the wonderful blessings of a ghetto upbringing, were autism was not noticed, I still suffer from those cognitive scars. O'Well, joy to the world, good luck and blessings too the wee guy.

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