Hair: A success story

[moira199]

Like most mothers of ASD children, both hair cuts and hair washing have been very difficult with my son for a long time - since birth really. The solution I found was to have his hair cut really short - a US marine style crew cut which lasts him for ages. Also, since he was so frightened of scissors, we worked on introducing him to the sound of hair clippers. We bought a set for home use and left them running while he was in the room. Eventually we built up to him running the clippers over his head himself ( cutting blade removed obviously). Then we took him to a traditional gentleman's barber near closing time in the hopes that it would be deserted. The man who shaved his hair was brilliant. The girls in the salon who used to attempt to cut his hair would just flutter nervously round the edges trying to get a snip here and there which made him worse. The barber was more firm and ignored protests which actually were not that bad.

That was months ago and we have not been back yet as his hair is still very short. It can be washed by rubbing a wet flannel over his head ( no dripping water in eyes) and he has even started to do this himself now.

Moira

ps - may not be suitable for girls although I think Demi Moore once did it for a film

[TotalChaos]

PMSL at the last line. I probably ought to do this with DS, but can't bear to buzzz away all his lovely blond hair.