DS2 eats wood. He has to have a pencil (or two) slotted between the fingers of his left hand all the time (he has ASD and LDs) and he eats them. I mean REALLY eats them.. a packet of brand new pencils will be 3 inch splintered stumps in a week, and nothing we have tried has replaced this. If he is unacble to have his pencils ( say on the bus etc) he chews his hoody ties, sleeves, ipod cable...
But the wood thing is ridiculous.. apart from the fact that where he sits in our house is always covered in slivers of pencil, he also swallows a LOT. This worries me!
Has anyone else got a long term eater of non edibles? Ds2 is 16 btw and unlikely to grow out of it! He rejected chewy OT toys etc and he definitely likes a crunch in his pencils! Food wise he likes crunchy too, and eats incredible numbers of icepops. He is verbal and moderately able but he just won't stop!!!