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difficult child 1's hygiene is still an issue and I don't know what to do about it.
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 557593" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I see t hat your son has Aspergers. Has her doctor ever considered that she may be on the spectrum? Many spectrum kids don't care about hygiene. My son is one. Here is a typical conversation about hygiene with him:</p><p></p><p>Me: If you smell bad people won't like it.</p><p></p><p>Him: (shrug and with good nature) They don't have to smell me.</p><p></p><p>Me: (trying another tack. In a teasing mood) If you smell and look good, girls will like ya!</p><p></p><p>Him: I don't want girls to like me. Girlfriends are too much trouble and I'm never getting married.</p><p></p><p>You get the point. He doesn't really care and he does have friends anyway. Often we make him shower. He goes into the bathroom and we hear the shower going. He comes out wet. How well he is showering, who knows? He is totally disinterested in social norms. If we never reminded him, I wonder if he'd ever shower.</p><p></p><p>Whatever the problems are, it's not your fault she doesn't care about her hygiene. She si fourteen. What are you supposed to do? Strip her, hold her under the shower and wash her and her hair? At her age, she has to willingly do it. If Dad is so smart, let HIM get her to take care of her appearance. </p><p></p><p>If she has NEVER cared about her appearance, sounds like she has something that puts her outside the boundaries of socially appropriate. Depression most certainly CAN and WILL make one possibly not care how he/she looks. But if she has always been this way, maybe it's something else. Just a thought...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 557593, member: 1550"] I see t hat your son has Aspergers. Has her doctor ever considered that she may be on the spectrum? Many spectrum kids don't care about hygiene. My son is one. Here is a typical conversation about hygiene with him: Me: If you smell bad people won't like it. Him: (shrug and with good nature) They don't have to smell me. Me: (trying another tack. In a teasing mood) If you smell and look good, girls will like ya! Him: I don't want girls to like me. Girlfriends are too much trouble and I'm never getting married. You get the point. He doesn't really care and he does have friends anyway. Often we make him shower. He goes into the bathroom and we hear the shower going. He comes out wet. How well he is showering, who knows? He is totally disinterested in social norms. If we never reminded him, I wonder if he'd ever shower. Whatever the problems are, it's not your fault she doesn't care about her hygiene. She si fourteen. What are you supposed to do? Strip her, hold her under the shower and wash her and her hair? At her age, she has to willingly do it. If Dad is so smart, let HIM get her to take care of her appearance. If she has NEVER cared about her appearance, sounds like she has something that puts her outside the boundaries of socially appropriate. Depression most certainly CAN and WILL make one possibly not care how he/she looks. But if she has always been this way, maybe it's something else. Just a thought... [/QUOTE]
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