Clothes

My nearly 10 year old daughter will only wear certain clothing and prefers items to be well worn in and dislikes clothes washed.  She finds it incredibly difficult to throw out clothing even if is severely stained and has holes in it.  I am currently battling to throw out the only pair of socks she wears to school.  They are now permanently brown on the soles, have holes in the toes and fall down as elastic has gone.  She will go into meltdown when they get thrown out and even if thrown out on a weekend, will threaten and possibly not go to school on the Monday morning.  She has new ones but complains they are too tight and don't fit.  Discussions result in screaming from her and items being thrown around the house. Suggestions made by us on how to help such as stretching out new socks are shot down by her. Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with transition between old and new clothing?  This is invariably going to be a long term issue for her.  Is it just a case of bracing for the fallout? Or do we wait longer until she decides they can no longer be worn?

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  •  sorry to hear that you're having a difficult time with your daughter. I experienced the same with my son who is on the spectrum he didn't want to  change his vests and socks too. I decided to buy these in bulky same brand and colour  and use them all at once so that there is no difference in wear and tear. That helped. So now my only issue is he goes thr seven white vests a week and 14 pairs of white socks a week because he wears two pairs of socks a day - so I wash more which Im more than happy to do. 

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  •  sorry to hear that you're having a difficult time with your daughter. I experienced the same with my son who is on the spectrum he didn't want to  change his vests and socks too. I decided to buy these in bulky same brand and colour  and use them all at once so that there is no difference in wear and tear. That helped. So now my only issue is he goes thr seven white vests a week and 14 pairs of white socks a week because he wears two pairs of socks a day - so I wash more which Im more than happy to do. 

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