Hi everyone, hope you are well. I would like to quickly say that my daughter is doing amazing in school. Staff have put more things in place and she is so much happier. She is a different person.
She does however keep on biting her nails, she's done this her whole life but I'm not too worried because they don't get infected or bleed. But now she is starting to pick the nail and skin around it which in the past I want too worried about because she didn't do any serious damage involving it bleeding. My main worry now is that over the past couple of days, and I only found out from her today, that she has been using scissors to cut the skin around her nails and use tweezers to pull the skin to the point where its bleeding. She does it on multiple fingers.
I don't know why she is doing it but she said she likes the pain of it. Is it a sensory thing? I'm not sure how I can help to replace this behaviour especially since it's becoming a problem.
The thing I can't get put my head is what she said. She came downstairs asking for toenail scissors and I asked why, and she replied, so I can cut my finger, showing me the blood and the skin that's hanging off. I honestly couldn't believe it.
