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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]She will not keep her room clean ever. Under any circumstances. There is rotting food, bugs, clothes everywhere. Her room makes me feel physically ill to walk into.[/quote]

I'd take everything out. Give her a set of clothes every day. [b]No food in room, just a bed.[/b] Take the door off if you have to. Put it all in storage bins for now. Get an exterminator.

This is mental illness and possibly addiction.

If her dad will take her, save the other 3. They are at risk now that CPS is visiting. [/quote]

How do people enforce this? I have a teen with ASD/ADHD whose room is disgusting. How do people enforce no food? I have turned off her phone more times than I can count. She has impulse control issues and she gets food at night and eats it in bed. She doesn't want to go out so grounding her would have no affect.  She doesn't like when I take her phone/ipad away but it doesn't fix the problem. [/quote]

Either don't buy packaged snack food or lock it up. Keep reinforcing food only in kitchen or at dining table rule. Have a time of day wifi goes off, on a timer or controlled by you. Again, strip the room. She should not think "disgusting" is normal. Start with minimal, work with her to pick up daily and clean weekly. It's a training issue and requires consistency over a long period of time. She sounds addicted to electronics, so limit that too. Don't turn off in response, make screen time earned. [/quote]

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