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Hi Alice,

It seems that Kelly is an american coach for the ABA system of behavioural training. I don't recall another posting from such a person in the 2 years I've been using the forum. I don't know anything about ABA except that it is sometimes used with children and I guess that the results are variable. I would have been interested to understand her views on ABA but it probably wasn't appropriate for her to offer her services in the way that she did.

Anyways, please don't feel shy about starting a new thread. There is a mixture of adults with autism and parents (sometimes with autism themselves) of children with autism so you are likely to get a wide variety of responses! I had a look, using the community search (top left of the forum pages), and hoarding hasn't been discussed properly yet. This is a bit surprising as my understanding of a lot of the people with hoards that you see on programmes like http://www.channel4.com/programmes/obsessive-compulsive-cleaners is that they are on the spectrum somewhere (as are some of the obsessive cleaners!)

ok thankyou . Maybe I ll just read for a while. Perhaps I should get to know this website abit better before I post things x

Hi Alice,

As recombinantsocks suggests you may want to repost your question by creating a new thread.

Hi Kelly, 

This is a peer to peer community and we don't usually have professionals offering advice in the way you have. I'll be in contact with you by email to discuss. 

Best Regards

Bob

Hi Alice,

Welcome to the site. You can start a new discussion for your own problem or join in on another discussion. I'm not sure where Kelly is coming from, she is new too and isn't in any way official or anything to do with NAS as far as I know.

If you want to start a new thread you have to go to the top level of the forum, pick a section to post your question in and then click the Start New Discussion link.

Hello, the only labels my son has had are moderate learning disability and severe specific speech and language disorder. It is only in the last couple of years that professionnals have started telling me my son has autism and he has never been officially assessed for it. I was asked recently by a psychologist if we would like to have these assessments done and we declined because we didn t think it would be helpful for him.  To a certain extent we may have initially started and even encouraged the hoarding because he has always enjoyed reading and is very good at it.We used to buy him lots of books and magazines as a child because he enjoyed and learnt from them. He has always been into sport particularly football and rugby and has been supporting his local teams for years and collecting programmes.  The problem has sort of grown from this.  He now buys newspapers , up till about a year ago he would throw the daily papers away but now tries to hold on to them aswell,  Nothing happened a year ago that I can think of that may have made him want to keep them. I still throw them away but he gets very upset.  He orders booklets and catalogues from the internet and I think he likes receiving them through the post.  he even takes pictures of adverts on the tv so he can order things later.  There is alot of paper accumulating in my house and I do struggle to keep on top of it.  The hoarding is in every aspect of his life, not even just material things, his phone recently ran out of space and he got another one which had more storage because he collects things on there too. He gets apps on his phone whether he will use them or not, he just likes to have them. If we delete them he just downloads them again.  It is quite an obsession he has.

Hi Kelly,

Do you mind me asking what qualifies you as a consultant? e.g. Are you a member of a professional college such as RCPsych ?

Hi Alice. Sorry to hear you're having some trouble with the hoarding. Aside from Autism, does your son have any other diagnoses? Can you remember if there was a specific time when the hoarding began?

I am a parent of a 31 year old son who has a problem with hoarding. Newspapers, magazines, catalogues, leaflets , flyers, anything he can get his hands on basically. I have to throw the newspapers away, he gets 3 every day, and he gets very upset.  Can you help me?  I have not been on this site before and basically havn t a clue if I ve replied to the correct discussion ie ask a behaviour analyst or not

 Thankyou