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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have mild aspergers and hygiene issues. There are a number of contributing factors. The first is that I have poor priority setting. Faced with multiple needs (my husband needs a cup of coffee, my kids need to be woken up, baby needs to be kept asleep), I have difficulty setting up a comparative hierarchy of what to do first. The winner is generally that need which impinges upon my consciousness first. Hygiene rarely makes it to the front of the line because-

[u]I have great difficulty with transitions. I love being in the shower and bath. If possible I stay in until the hot water runs out. What I hate is getting into and out of the shower. First it means taking off clothes. I've sat here five minutes trying to articulate why I have difficulty changing clothes. The nearest I can get is it feels like taking off skin. Once I'm in the water it's fine because it's covering me, but getting there- ugh. Afterwards is almost worse because now your naked AND cold. Then you put the clothes back on, and they usually have to be different clothes, and it's so hard to get properly dry that when you put the clothes on they get a little wet and don't feel properly a part of you.
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I've found the best way to deal with all this is to listen to the radio or a book on tape while performing difficult transitions. It keeps the thinking part of my brain occupied, while the doing part gets on with getting things done.[/quote]

Thank you for writing this.     
This is definitely an issue for DS-10  (AS), and there is no way he could come close to articulating as you have, but bath/shower time is a huge deal to him.
Thanks.[/quote]

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