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Hi Everybody,

So I'm needing some advice from someone who has been there, or links to some experts, or both.

My 8 year old daughter is Autistic, she is very verbal, does well academically, so well that she was exited last year from her IEP and just has a 504 now to help with a few accommodations.

Tonight though she broke my heart into pieces when she was sobbing at bedtime that she didn't want to go back to school on Wednesday...or ever. Apparently some kids in her class are teasing her for stimming. The teasing is for flapping her hands, which she still does when excited, but mostly it is kids calling her 'gross' because she self-soothes sometimes by putting her hands down her pants. She knows she's supposed to do that only 'in private' but has trouble remembering.

I already plan to talk to her teacher about some work with the class on teasing. I don't spend a lot of time trying to stop any of her stims. But I am thinking that if she really can't remember not to self soothe by putting her hands in her pants then that needs to be something we work on. I don't see a situation in the future where that doesn't hurt her with her peers...kids are going to say it is gross and mock and reject her because hands in the pants is not really something we want or expect to see our peers doing while we hang out with them.

Has anyone had any luck getting their child to stop this behavior, or to 'remember' to do it only when in private? I'm trying to tread careful waters and not wind up making her think her body is gross or dirty or something she should be ashamed of yet also somehow get her to stop touching it while at school in second grade. Totally at a loss.

She's very verbal and can understand all of our explanations for why this is a private time thing, its just that while 'in the moment' she seems to continue to forget. I don't know how to help her. I'd love to hear from someone with a suggestion.

Thanks so much![/quote]

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