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Hugging/kissing asd ideas please

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TheArsenicCupCake · 08/05/2010 22:54

Ds2 has been doing really well.. We've achieved a huge amount.
He will now offer hugs and kisses , which is great..
However a small issue has come up that he will full on lip kiss, rather than copy us by using a cheek kiss. He is 11 btw so he is a big lad.
And hugs are impulsive bull in a china shop stuff.

Nit complaining as he's done fab.. But without hurting his feelings ( he's very sensitive) .. How can we achieve the more socially acceptable cheek kiss and non bull in a china shop hug.

Anyone with any experience out there?

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TheArsenicCupCake · 08/05/2010 22:58

Oh and ( while I'm posting) .. Personal washing and hold penis when he uses the loo.

Always remind him and always get" I don't like it.. " or it feels nasty"

it's seems to be one of his hyper touch things.. But he needs to be clean and not pee on the seat and floor all the time.. He insists onstanding up to pee btw.

TIA

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Macforme · 09/05/2010 00:07

We have started teaching DS2 (also ASD and MLD) to shake hands.. yes it's horribly formal but in the long term , more appropriate in situations where it's not family!

We also have a traffic light system for WHO DS2 is allowed to touch.. green for family, yellow for school people..teacher, physio etc and red for strangers as he finds it hard to NOT touch everyone.. he is indiscriminately friendly. It's an ongoing project...

Personal washing... yup so there . Ds2 is 13 in a few weeks and I'm still showering him. He has no sense of privacy but I wish I didn't have to, however unless I help he just stands there under the water and zones out! We have started getting him to wash himself with verbal prompts but it's hard work..literally step by step 'hair wet' 'pick up sponge' etc. We also found a pictoral step by step instruction sheet for showering (for ASD) on ebay.. laminated and stuck in the shower!

Not sure how to help with holding the penis however.. but take heart... my son does hold his but he still pees everywhere. Worst is when he does sit but has a morning, um, stiffy and it shoots upwards.......

TheArsenicCupCake · 09/05/2010 15:39

Thank you.. The traffic light system sounds like a good plan

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amberlight · 09/05/2010 16:20

It helps a lot if others in his familiar circle of acquaintances, friends and family can all use the same 'stop' signals e.g. a hand held up to signal 'stop', and a clear word "Stop!". Then if he's stopped, they can give the next instruction for what sort of hug or kiss it should be. Not handy for strangers, but it can help us a lot with other people (she says, as someone well known for occasionally getting those boundaries wrong herself...).

Showering is a sensory overload of incredible proportions for many (not all) of us. I have to remember which bit of me is which in the shower and often forget bits, because I'm coping with the pain of the water and the pong of the soaps etc. The pictures of which bit to do are very useful.

I've heard useful things about getting a child to lie under a weighted blanket before a shower, or using deep pressure massage. It 'resets' our brain to remember where the whole of us is, and calms us down enough to be able to remember more in the shower anyway.

Weeing...wonder if he'd find it easier to hold it with a soft paper tissue round it rather than using his hands, if he can figure out how to wrap it in a way that the wee can actually get out? Just thinking out loud, really. If he doesn't like the sensation, (plus there's the loud noise of weeing and the smells of a loo etc), then it might help a bit.

Also, a target might help. I think some people paint a big dot on the back of the loo bowl to aim at.

I've managed to miss the loo and I'm a woman on the autism spectrum and sit down on the thing, so I don't know why I'm giving advice really

Eee, the things we have to do, eh?

TheArsenicCupCake · 09/05/2010 17:30

Amber thank you so much.. yes to overload in the shower.. All you know the smells and how the soap squeeges out and how the water goes down the plug hole.. Let alone anything else! ( bless him lol)

I didn't even think about the smell of wee.. But thanks for the tip I'm gathering new info everyday for and about him. Sometimes I can harldy keep up..

I'll let family know to employ our stop / slow down sign. And employ the traffic lights for strangers.

Just want to say .. I am so proud of him and he really is the best... And hey.. Well learn together..

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