Reply to Kindergartener having poop accidents

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "Kindergartener having poop accidents"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, there is a book on potty training children with ASD - it says very specifically that for some children it may feel good to soil their pants (sorry for details, but warm and soft smth next to their skin). I am not saying that your child is on the spectrum, but ADHD and ASD have some areas of overlap, so there is a real chance that he might be telling you the truth.

I've read your update, and hope the issue doesn't exist anymore, but if it crops up again, keep the above in mind. He may not have been lying to you.[/quote]
Thank you. I sincerely appreciate your thoughtful reply.

He has been seeing a therapist. She has not mentioned any ASD symptoms that she has seen, nor has the school, but the other thing he has is the beginning of some oppositional defiant behavior.

Before we started therapy, he would often say the opposite of what his actual preferences are just to make the adult feel like any natural consequences to his actions didn’t mean anything to him. We don’t believe that he actually enjoyed the feeling of having poop in his pants, he was just being defiant. We would say that having poop in your pants is a consequence of not going to the bathroom, and he shot back that he liked it. Pretty typical for him at the time.

The pooping stopped pretty much immediately when we put a consequence in place, but things took a bad turn with other behavior over the holidays when there was no school structure. In January we were finally able to get in to a therapist. The oppositional behavior has decreased significantly since we started. I’m paying out of pocket and have no idea what my insurance will reimburse, but I can do this for a little while if it’s helping this much.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics