ds6 wrote number 1s all over bedroom wall

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He's obsessed with numbers with number one being a favourite.
He often writes number 1s on his body but early this morning he decided to decorate his bedroom instead.
where do i start? repaint?

btw he's on the spectrum with limited understanding.

Buy plaster board and lean it on the wall where he can reach to draw on it or use heavy duty command strips to stick it to the wall.

Have Crayola washable felt tips as the only writing implements in the house!

I'd just leave it. He likes it, and nobody else sleeps there. It's not really a big deal so long as he only does it in his own room.

This is how you get abysmally behaved children.

Spectrum or not, he needs to be told and made to understand this is not acceptable behaviour and he isn't to do it again.

And how would you do that? How do you make him understand that?

Oh shut up
You have absolutely no idea

Not read the whole thread, just your comments, OP, so this may already have been recommended. Have you come across whiteboard wallpaper before? We’re going to line the playroom in it as well as our office spaces. Not helpful right now as you’re moving but when in the new home, could be great. Removes some of the tactile discomfort of blackboard paper and chalks which might be better if he has that that as part of his ASD, and just wipes clean every day (if he wants to). It’s not massively expensive either (compared to repainting all the time, anyway 😂). . Something like this, maybe? www.teacherboards.co.uk/whiteboard-wall-covering/. The magnetic ones, I don’t think are as good, but never tried the whiteboard paint which could be another option.

Again, like the blackboard one, best done onto lining paper.

Hope that helps but if it has already come up on the thread, just consider this another thumbs up for it!

How would you suggest i do that?

Thats so cool!!! never mind number one's I'd draw over that😆

Going to show dh

@ofwarren Sorry wrong post !

If you do need to repaint before moving, use a stain blocking primer such as Zinsser B.I.N before painting over the top. That will permanently block the black marks from showing through.

If he won't understand that he shouldn't draw on the wall then I'd leave the numbers there and go with it, it's a form of communication telling the world he loves number 1! I wonder also if he might like some number posters up on his wall or just some big numbers cut out of different coloured paper. Go with his obsessions and make the most of them is my advice for any child with ASD. When mine was little I made books full of cut out pictures of phones that he would look at for ages. For birthday/Christmas I'd get books of numbers, flashcards with numbers, magnetic numbers...

Oh fgs, surely you understand that’s not possible for some children?

If it is pen, do not paint over it until you have put some stain sealer on. The pen will bleed I to.your paint and discolour it. Been there done that.

I can recommend crown washable paint.

At the end of the day, it is just a wall and it can be painted. I wouldn't paint it until you move in case he decided to be creative again. Good idea to hang a couple of white boards and I think you get the stick on black boards as well. I would love to know how he got up so high though.

My ds (also asd) once drew a picture of, I think, a rocket on the wall. Apparently I recycled his pictures so this one was for prosperity.

I agree with the leaving it for now, many years later the memory of the rocket still makes me smile.

This.
He’ll have his reason for doing this. I’d leave it until just when you’re moving.
it’s him room, his safe haven and he’s his reason for doing this.

I take it you don’t have an autistic child with limited understanding!

I have an adult son with severe autism. He doesn’t and never will get that there are things he cannot do, there is no way to get him to understand he shouldn’t do certain things!

Sounds like a good solution! My son is in his twenties now and I know he’d just keep doing it if we painted over it. There is always a reason our son does stuff like this www just don’t know what that is 😂. Whiteboards sound like a plan!

@Lunalae - honestly don’t comment unless you have a clue what you’re talking about! My autistic son is an adult. There is no way you could get him to understand that he shouldn’t/can’t do something. You have to find ways round things. The op’s son isn’t being naughty or “behaving abysmally” he’s drawn those numbers for a reason probably only he knows.

@Lunalae perhaps I'd have left a comment like yours years ago before I met my son. Just so you know, you come across as a dick.

Sorry OP. I've nothing useful to add to your thread. Just popped on to say you and your son sound so lovely, what lovely numbers he has drawn. This is something we'd really celebrate in our house.

Tell me you know fuck all about something without telling me you know fuck all about something.

I'd just be aware that some of us struggle with white backgrounds if we have light sensitivity or visual stress so might be worth bearing in mind when considering different types of wall covering.

You can buy blackboard background that peels to the wall. I used this on my sons wall. It peels off with no damage.

My work has whiteboard paint in most rooms, I would never have known until they said. White board pens can on the other hand be messy on other surfaces