AIBU?
To be at wits end about this?
CymaticPrincess88 · 18/11/2019 13:27
Okay. I'm at my wits end. Ds (6yo) will not stop ripping wallpaper off his walls. He's even chipping his way through the plaster underneath. I don't know what to do to get him to stop!
I'm private rent and I cant afford to decorate over and over again. He's chipping the plaster away so even if I do somehow manage to replaster it (I don't know how and cant afford to hire someone) he will just do it again?
Anyone have any experience of this. DS shows some traits of autism but does not have an official diagnosis.
gamerchick · 18/11/2019 17:02
I think I'd be screwing perspex sheets to the walls in your shoes. But I'm not private rented.
Sharing a bedroom, get something else that gives the same sensory feeling like a papered board or a box full of books like telephone directories or the yellow pages/ catalogues for him to rip up. He might get the same sensory audio and noise.
AloeVeraLynn · 18/11/2019 17:05
Its tricky if it's an autism related behaviour. My son chews on his all clothes and makes holes in them, chews the buttons off etc. Nothing really stops or distracts him and we just have to replace clothes regularly 
Perhaps something else to fiddle with like a one of those fiddle bracelets might help.
CymaticPrincess88 · 18/11/2019 20:05
I'm so sorry, I should have clarified, he does this at night time after he has gone to bed. He should be sleeping but instead he does this, I don't know if he's doing it before sleep or waking up and doing it. I've never caught him in the act so to speak.
MitziK · 18/11/2019 20:41
And one of the best fiddle toys I've found is a bundle of cable ties in different sizes and colours, all fastened together so they can't go round fingers or arms, easily washed, smooth texture on one side, rough on the other, flappy or bendy or flat all at once - and cheap. Very, very cheap.
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