After years of food issues and constipation, Ian is finally expanding his diet and experiencing . . . shall we say . . . a lightening of the load. "Will he poop today?" is no longer the question. It has become a matter of "How many times will he poop today?"
This is good and bad. I don't think I need to tell you the good aspects of regularity. The bad? He is obsessed with it. Every time he goes to the bathroom he poops. He goes several times at home and at school. And he is extremely interested in it. The wallpaper in one of the bathrooms recently had some new aromatic finger paint impressions on it. (Why a kid chooses to use a wall to wipe his hands instead of the toilet paper, Kleenex, or wet wipes all within reach is COMPLETELY BEYOND ME!) Why would he want to touch poop? And why on Earth would it be something he would want to do more than once? Right now I am so grossified, I tremble whenever he walks in the direction of a bathroom.
Have any of your Aspie/autistic kids had this obsession? Any guesses, educated or otherwise, why this would happen?
(Maybe he has overheard me say, "shit" often enough that he thinks it's a command, rather an an expletive.)
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