My ds is 7.5, has ASD and goes to a special school. School helped him toilet train for wee's at 5 and I made the decision to take him out of nappies and just buy the cheapest pants I could find, which he poo's in then I throw them away. Until this week people...this week he came to find me on Monday to say he needed a poo and led me to the toilet. He sat down and hey presto!
I didn't dare believe it could be repeated but he's done it every day since. I am so happy I could cry!
I can't tell you why, what convinced him to try or anything remotely useful, but I know that through the grim times of being out and having to clean up a 7 year old who had sat down with a poo in his pants and not told me until I noticed, I would have been cheered by the idea that one day he might just do it all by himself.
I hope this gives some of you a bit of hope too, even though all our kids are different and will achieve different stuff, I honestly thought we had years of cleaning poop ahead.