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[quote=Anonymous]21:44 here.  I think that you are doing the right thing by calmly teaching him to respect personal boundaries.  I would not listen to the PP who recommended punishing him.  Shaming him will just give him bigger problems that he will probably take with him into adulthood.

My DD has Tourette Syndrome in addition to ADHD and OCD so I am used to her doing things that she truly can't control.  Parenting a child with TS is a very different ball game from parenting the average child because you know that any time you try to force a child to stop having a tic, you will only make things much, much worse.  Some kids with TS smell people a lot.  It is a tic for them.  So with my kid, I never knew whether she was having impulse control problems or actual tics.  Still, I told her that this behavior makes people very uncomfortable and she did eventually learn to control some of the more inappropriate behaviors.

I think your son will be fine and he will stop doing this when he develops the maturity and ability to control himself a little better.  He already knows that he should stop but he obviously isn't able to do that yet.  Giving him a shirt might be a really good idea.[/quote]

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