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Toilet issues

george

My 6 year old son will not go to the toilet on his own. Despite encouragement he insists on somebody pulling his trousers down and “aiming” for him. There is no physical reason why he cannot do this. Does anybody else have a similar problem and any suggestions / tips to help make him more independent in this respect?

 

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  • This is the great unmentionable subject in the autism picture. I keep discovering other people with kids with toileting problems but it seems I have to know them for years before they will own up.

    My son couldn't go to school nursery 'cos he was still in nappies at 3 1/2. He was dry at night before he was dry in the day - he just wouldn't interrupt what he was doing to go to the toilet. The soiling problem lasted right up until he was 12, when he went to a CAMHS-run children's residential unit for a whole school year to sort this out. I know mums who still wipe their 12 year old's bottoms, and even one who wipes her 19-year-old's. At nearly 16, this summer, when we went to the US for two weeks, my son just didn't empty his bowels for nearly 2 weeks and was in agony when we finally had to give him laxatives.

    All kudos to the NAS for starting to run training days on this - I went to one, which made me feel less alone, and I hope there will be many more in different parts of the country.

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  • This is the great unmentionable subject in the autism picture. I keep discovering other people with kids with toileting problems but it seems I have to know them for years before they will own up.

    My son couldn't go to school nursery 'cos he was still in nappies at 3 1/2. He was dry at night before he was dry in the day - he just wouldn't interrupt what he was doing to go to the toilet. The soiling problem lasted right up until he was 12, when he went to a CAMHS-run children's residential unit for a whole school year to sort this out. I know mums who still wipe their 12 year old's bottoms, and even one who wipes her 19-year-old's. At nearly 16, this summer, when we went to the US for two weeks, my son just didn't empty his bowels for nearly 2 weeks and was in agony when we finally had to give him laxatives.

    All kudos to the NAS for starting to run training days on this - I went to one, which made me feel less alone, and I hope there will be many more in different parts of the country.

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