School again - sorry

[mummy2aaron]

Ds2's teacher spoke to me today, he has apparently been pulling up the girls skirts and trying to pull their knickers down and touch them. I am very concerned as he is usually such a little innocent, he hates any kind of nudity and wont even wear shorts ot tshirts in summer he wants total coverage. Young for this kind of thing in reception anyway but his mental age is of a younger child anyway. Has anyone else had this with thir autistic child?

DS2 (5) loves bare skin, though recently he's been confining his explorations to people he knows, luckily. He did do the skirt thing once in the park though (he was about 3) and I got some very odd looks from parents. I am convinced that it's just a sensory thing - a love of feeling bare skin - and there's nothing sexual in it at all. Obviously inappropriate though. Would your DS respond to a social story? (mine wouldn't as yet).

he may do sphil thanks i will try that. he has been doing some really unusual for him things since he started for exaample hair pulling, he has never done that before, he is always copying though, and going one better.

It does sound as if it could be a bit of copying/egging on?

I don't think that you can tie it into a sensory issue per se, since he isn't getting the change in sensation, the girls are. And the targeting of the knickers, as opposed to a more 'neutral' area of clothing seems different to a need to feel bare skin IYSWIM.

Sadly children with ASD can often the the brunt of other children egging them on to do 'naughty' things.

Would social stories help, do you think?

I think he is actually getting punished for some things he hasnt instigated i am currently trying to hammer into him to tell the teacher rather than retaliate. Also I need the teachers to give him something instant such as time out rather than leave it to the end of the week which is usual.