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He won't bathe/she won't comb her hair!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 67865" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Thanks! Well, we do force the bathing, although he's fourteen and I can't watch him. I do smell him when he comes out...lol. Every so often we slip up and he smells. I can only imagine him living on his own one day...he'll never bathe. (Sigh) Just more affirmation that he'll need some sort of assisted living. If he went to work smelling that bad, I bet they'd fire him. Also, thanks for the suggestion about clothes. He DOESN'T like newly washed clothes, and I'll try to ask him if it's the smell, the feel, whatever. I am alarmed that, at his age, he doesn't care about hygiene without our harping on it, but he truly doesn't. When I ask him why he hangs up his smelly shirts he says, "I hate a messy room." LOL, he hates anything on his floor, but he doesn't notice when the room smells of sweat. Truth! </p><p>My daughter is a bigger mystery. She does care how she looks--A LOT. In her opinion, her hair is so ugly (I feel so bad for her) that this is the best way she can look--by pulling it all back in a severe ponytail. She likes how she looks in braids, but says they hurt her head so I refuse to pay for a fancy hair salon--she takes out braids. And no she doesn't have Sensory Integration Disorder (SID). I've taken her to visit my AA friends and they've done her hair and she's looking adorable, but she takes it down. I think she really feels bad that she doesn't have "white" hair (sniff). It makes me feel terrible. But she has two cousins who are bi-racial and they use irons and have shown her how to do her hair. She claims the irons "burn" her head. No, she doesn't have Sensory Integration Disorder (SID)...lol. Maybe she just isn't old enough yet to worry about it. She is NOT a defiant, difficult, inflexible kid and is usually very amicable to suggestions, but she's digging her heels in on this one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 67865, member: 1550"] Thanks! Well, we do force the bathing, although he's fourteen and I can't watch him. I do smell him when he comes out...lol. Every so often we slip up and he smells. I can only imagine him living on his own one day...he'll never bathe. (Sigh) Just more affirmation that he'll need some sort of assisted living. If he went to work smelling that bad, I bet they'd fire him. Also, thanks for the suggestion about clothes. He DOESN'T like newly washed clothes, and I'll try to ask him if it's the smell, the feel, whatever. I am alarmed that, at his age, he doesn't care about hygiene without our harping on it, but he truly doesn't. When I ask him why he hangs up his smelly shirts he says, "I hate a messy room." LOL, he hates anything on his floor, but he doesn't notice when the room smells of sweat. Truth! My daughter is a bigger mystery. She does care how she looks--A LOT. In her opinion, her hair is so ugly (I feel so bad for her) that this is the best way she can look--by pulling it all back in a severe ponytail. She likes how she looks in braids, but says they hurt her head so I refuse to pay for a fancy hair salon--she takes out braids. And no she doesn't have Sensory Integration Disorder (SID). I've taken her to visit my AA friends and they've done her hair and she's looking adorable, but she takes it down. I think she really feels bad that she doesn't have "white" hair (sniff). It makes me feel terrible. But she has two cousins who are bi-racial and they use irons and have shown her how to do her hair. She claims the irons "burn" her head. No, she doesn't have Sensory Integration Disorder (SID)...lol. Maybe she just isn't old enough yet to worry about it. She is NOT a defiant, difficult, inflexible kid and is usually very amicable to suggestions, but she's digging her heels in on this one. [/QUOTE]
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