please help toilet troubles

[frankiebuns]

My ds 4 has asd and has taken to peeing on the floor where he fancies no amount of telling him or discussing with him is working so far we have been through 5 towels and 2 toilet mats and that's just Today he won wee if pee with you there I'm at my wits end when i explain he changed the subject I want to cry

Wishing you whatever you need to make it better,
sorry I'm useless with helpful advice, but if he got under control before, he can do it again, so with some help from some of the folk on these boards, I'm sure you'll get there in time

Is he anxious? With my ds I have to deal with the anxiety and that stops the toileting issues. But it could be completely different reasons for your ds. I hope you get some helpful advice on here. I find it exhausting dealing with this type of thing. And it will not be nice for your ds either. Best wishes.

Ping ping ball in the toilet to aim at?

Oh and possibly an infection- I had lots of recurrent infections as a child so was still wetting at 6 or 7 at school.

If yo can get a sample off to test, it will at least cross that possibility off the list.

We've had it tested its fine but he's just standing on the floor and going. I went in last night realised he had dun it as gain and I sat and cried!

We went through this over the summer with 6yr old DS. He developed a fixation with nappies and kept trying to put one of DS2's on whenever he needed a wee. Of course he then timed it wrong and would wee on the carpet.

We found dozens of wee-filled nappies stuffed under his bed and we had to hire a Rug Doctor to get the smell out of the carpets. Like you, no amount of reasoning or begging or telling off worked.

It got to the stage where we were watching him really closely and asking him every 5 mins if he needed to go, and then going with him to the toilet. I also stopped leaving him alone for longer than a couple of minutes (we live in a flat, so easier to pop into his bedroom unannounced!)

He slowly got out of the habit and hasn't done it since September last year. It was a horrible time though, I was massively pregnant and feeling sick all the time and the last thing I wanted to deal with was puddles of wee!

On the plus side, the Rug Doctor Urine Eliminator works really well!