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[quote=Anonymous]My DC is having a hoarding problem and I need help - she is not yet 4 and she already hoards everything. In every room of the house, she takes a 'spot' to put all her stuff in - things she hoards in one section of the linen closet (she calls it her spot) for example  - dirty clothes, toys, paper pieces, food items, cardboard pieces.. I've found fungus oranges, slices of apple, cookies, raisins - you name it, its in her spot. She always wants '2' or '3'  cookies or apples or oranges or bread slices or whatever and I find them in 'her spots'..Every time I cleanup the room with toys it goes back to bad state in 2 days. She takes all the blocks or whatever little toys, puts them in boxes, drags all the boxes and containers to a corner and makes a huge pile of toys. Instead of playing appropriately with the toys, she finds comfort in mixing them all up and putting them in a corner.

She has head banging and back banging sensory issues (seen a dev.ped for that). No diagnosis of ASD but attends Pilot and regular preschool since she has speech delay and cannot intiate conversation and is too shy to even ask a question to the teacher. She has anxiety issues. If I take out something from her pile of junk she has a meltdown. She also has transition issues between classes in preschool -  she gets attached to a teacher and it took her a month each time they moved classes based on age (once in Sep and once this Jan). She knows how to poop in potty but refuses to do it and just poops in pullups and says she'll 'poop in potty Sunday'. I am clearly at a loss what to do since she seems so smart when it comes to understanding things, observing and  later implementing - she sees something on a cartoon and knows how to apply that in real  life. But she has all these strange habits.

How do I help prevent this obsession with hoarding? I am just tired of seeing piles of junk in every corner of the house (every room - even some kitchen cabinets are 'hers') and if I try to remove her junk, she has meltdowns. I have a bad back/hip and just dont know how to keep the house clean anymore and am getting angrier and frustrated by this. Does anyone else have a child with similar obsessions? How do you handle this?[/quote]

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