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Urinating in bedroom

Jenna

Hi I'm new here and looking for some advice, my son is 6 years old and we have struggled with this for 2 years, when my son was 4 I managed to get him out of pullups but straight away I noticed if he wasn't having accidents during the night he was peeing in his bed during the day, after 2 new beds and mattresses I thought we had finally gotten over it but instead he started doing it during the night again not just in bed but anywhere in his room, he also started eating his mattress then peeing in the hole that he had made, after another new mattress around 3 months ago he has now stopped doing it in his bed but is still doing it in his room. Iv found pee in toy boxes, behind the bed, the floor, his clothes even in a pringles tub, I'm at a loss of what to do has anyone else had this and has any advice that may help? I don't think it will be long before I will have to replace his flooring and bed again.

Thank you Blush 

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  • What else has he got going on? Because this sounds like pica, and something far more worrisome than just autism alone. Getting stuck in a routine of doing it might be related to autism, but what started it is likely something else entirely otherwise a lot more of us* would have been massive pee monsters as kids which isn't the case. In fact of all the fellow autistic folk I have talked to online and offline it's a common census that being soaked in liquid, and unpleasant smells like urine are usually huge sensory nightmares to be avoided like the plague. So something about your son's behaviour is expressing in a really extreme an unusual way as far as I can tell.

    *(most members here are actually autistic ourselves, not therapists or teachers) 

    I'd like to advise you to talk to an autism specific child psychologist if you can, because we are only able to tell you about our own experiences, and if nobody here has been in your sons position as a child themself we aren't likely to be able to tell you what to do to get him out of it.  Anything beyond our personal experiences we are literally not allowed to say as it is against forum rules to give medical or legal advice.

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    He's not doing it in his pyjamas I think he's actually pulling them down to do it so thankfully hes not laying in it unless hes accidentally done it in his sleep, I will try get a professional to speak with about it, well they have mentioned pica but iv not really had any advice on these things they just gave me this website to go on to, thank you hopefully someone professional can help :)

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