Hello,
This may seem like a strange question, but I discovered our 4 year old son eating liquid soap the other day. He says he has done this for ages. Obviously there are medical implications but I wonder whether he is craving some sort of sensory input? He has lots of other sensory issues and likes licking things and people. When he was two, this licking combined with a need to spin made the nursery suspect he was on the autistic spectrum, but the assessment revealed that he was 3+ years ahead of his peer group cognitively and linguistically and this asynchronicity explained his unusual behaviour. The health visitor said he absolutely was not on the spectrum. Does anyone else have any experience of this kind of behaviour and cravings for strange things?
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Does your gfted child eat anything strange and is it connected to sensory issues?
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dumelamama · 16/05/2016 23:47
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