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ASD HELP PLS! Extreme inability to Cope with Smells

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Blossom4538 · 18/11/2020 16:47

Anyone have experience or help with this at all please. It’s become so extreme, she can’t cope with the smell of our house (not smelly to us NTs, just usual everyday smelling house!). Huge meltdowns day and night, has to have air freshener by her side. We have plug ins, essential oils, candles etc to help. It’s so extreme these past few weeks abs ties in with her high anxiety. I don’t know how to help her. She had the worst, aggressive meltdown about it in the middle of the night on Monday, from sleeping to immediately screaming about it and attacking us. She is at the higher end of the autism spectrum with huge sensory issues.
The air fresheners are catching our chests, causing us to cough abs sniffle...this is her worst auditory sensory sensitivity and also triggers huge meltdowns.
We are in the long long process, pursuing medication and in touch with camhs. I just don’t know what to do anymore.

We moved here early this year and she cannot cope with the smell - again nothing unusually smelly about the house.

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lingle · 18/11/2020 19:33

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Hehx3 · 18/11/2020 22:35

Hopefully someone wiser will come soon. My boy had tactile problems, what resolved it was exposing him to experience with different textures etc. in play - but when everything is on his therms so he feels he controls it. I dont have personal experience with smell sensitivity but wanted to share just in case as its all sensory.

lingle · 19/11/2020 10:28

when the sensory issue is sound we give them ear defenders and take it from there.

therefore the only thing I can think of is something that will enable her to smell less and/or control what she is smelling. sorry I can't help more.

Ellie56 · 19/11/2020 22:34

Has she been assessed by an OT?

HardAsSnails · 19/11/2020 22:45

Instead of using air fresheners etc have you tried giving her a lot of smells so she can control what she's smelling but it has less impact on the rest of the household? Things like perfumed/essential oil rollers, smelly balms she can put under her nose, a hanky with a favourite essential oil, scented wooden balls, that sort of thing.

If it's fairly recent any chance it's Covid related?

Blossom4538 · 22/11/2020 19:17

Yep, she currently has tissue with lavender oil on. It’s been a tough year, house move, covid, sudden bereavement xx

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