Drinking a lot of fluids

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I don't know if this is a problem with regular kids or not. My son is obsessed with drinking all day. It's pronounced to me because I don't care for a lot of water or milk, I sip on 3 cups of the same coffee throughout the day. My son will drink like 24 oz of milk, soy milk, apple juice and water. Probably 48 oz+ of drinks and I'm not sure how much water.
He insists on drinking at bedtime and when I tell him no, he starts whining how thirsty he is. He does this with anything he wants, so it's hard to tell if he really needs a drink or not.
He still wets the bed and we stopped buying overnights a couple of weeks ago to see if he can stay dry. He goes in streaks, like 3 days dry and then 4 days wet. It doesn't seem to bother him and he even forgets to change when he gets up. I have to tell him to change and wash up.
Is there a decent cut off time for drinks that won't leave him thirsty? I drink in bed a lot, water, coffee, beer and wine-whatever. But I can hold my fluids.

Can't really give you much, if any, advice on this, except to say that I go through LOTS of fluids on a regular basis. Sadly, far too much of it is Coke these days. I generally go through 2-3 liters of liquid a day.
Part of me says this is from growing up in a very arid climate (far west Texas and New Mexico) but I'm not too sure of that.

Yeah, we live in the desert, but he's been like this in humid and temperate climates too. We have lived here, Indiana and Northern California. He was worse as a toddler (Indiana), when He was barely eating. He drank tons of soy milk and apple juice.

I drink fluid nonstop. I have been drinking Diet Coke for several years at about a gallon per day. But I am developing kidney stones now so I just drink water.

I'm not sure why feel compelled to drink excessive amounts of liquid. But I certainly do.

Have him screened for diabeties, then let it go.

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this is what I would say that he could have the starting of diabeties. BUT you do not tell us if he is on any type of meds or suppliments?? these too could cause the excessive need to drink.. mind would also drink all day long.. juice.. but you need to know what these things will do to their teeth. its horrible! take if from me a person who has seen what tooth decay can do for the kid.. a trip to the dentist can be horrible for a child with AS. and the tooth aches are 10 times worse becuase of their sensory issues. not a nice thing.... and diet soda can rot your teeth worse than sugar soda's the citric acid breaks down their teeth.. my mother in law is a dental hygentist and has been working in people;s mouths for years! so look to see what is causing your child to need to drink so much.. could it be an obsessive compulsive issue??

i have students all over the spectrum, and some of them *do* prefer drinking liquids to eating...
is your child drinking enough that it effects his appetite ?
on another note, when i was potty training my 3 kids, i found that limiting the amount of liquids they had after supper helped ensure nighttime dryness.

He had a blood panel done last year and it was fine, we were surprised he was showing that he had no vitamin/mineral deficiencies. He has preferred fluids since toddlerhood.
It used to affect his appetite, but now he is hungry all the time and doesn't like to eat meals. So, he snacks a lot and I have to watch his access to sugar. He likes sweets, including cookies and "fruit snacks" but doesn't eat chocolate, soda or sugary drinks.
I was addicted to chocolate and caffeine at 4, so I have taken care to keep him from that stuff.
He doesn't pee a lot, which is a symptom of diabetes. Just normal.
So, I wonder if I should limit his fluids or let him drink? He does drink lots of water, and not as much juice as he used to.

btw, no meds or suppliments, never. Oatmeal with wheatgerm is as medicinal as we get.

As long as he's peein', water won't hurt him. Might even be good for him. Could make a good case study. Maybe you wanna document thoroughly.

My as daughter doesn't drink enough and my NT son drinks constantly. I think some kids just have different preferences.

As for the bedwetting we had the same problem with my daughter up until she was almost 9 years old. Nothing we did worked until she started sensory therapy. we started brushing her and the bed wetting stopped. Turns out it was a sensory issue for her. If she is super stressed sometimes we have an occasional problem but at least she wakes up now when it happens.

i'd still keep a close watch on him, and perhaps have more testing done....if he's drinking alot, and not peeing~that concerns me................as far as the eating goes, many doctors say that eating 6 mini-meals a day is healthier than eating 3 big meals. the trick, they say, is to make sure that the calories in those 6 meals adds up to a normal days intake, and that the foods you're consuming represent a healthy diet.
currently, my aspie son will not eat any veggies, but eats 4 or 5 apples a day...some of my students will not eat foods of a certain texture~nothing mushy....many of my students prefer foods that are crunchy.

this whole thing has me quite concerned.....i just surfed around the net, and found a link to a listing of various dx's with the main symptom being lack of urination.........even if you had him checked last year, i'd have him checked again....
http://www.cureresearch.com/sym/weak_ur ... rinter.htm

I am always thirsty I've always drunk huge amounts of fluid since childhood, I used to have an old pub pint glass and would drinks lots of orange squash and water.

I used to drink a lot of water during childhood; that was way before the whole "8 glasses a day" thing. My parents, however, went to great lengths to stop me from going "drinking water when I'm not thirsty". They justified it as "we're your parents, and we care about your health". They picked up this idea that drinking "too much" water (notice the quotes) was bad for my kidneys. So whenever they saw me heading for the Brita pitcher, they would yell at me to turn around and go back, or if I already got water, they would grab the glass from me and pour it out. Apparently, they thought that the water or other liquids I got during meals were enough. I found myself secretly wishing for my parents to just disappear.

But don't feel too sorry for me. I got around their draconian tactics pretty nicely. I would go into the bathroom, lock the door, and drink from the faucet. At one point, they caught on to this, and said to me: "If you're thirsty, then ask for water; don't drink it in the bathroom". But since I flushed the toilet every time, they never had any proof that I was deceiving them. Of course, when I did ask for water directly, they told me I was only pretending to be thirsty, unless I asked during or right after a meal. Lies and deception were my best non-human friends at the time.

okay, I posted and it ate it.
here we go again.
I meant that he doesn't pee excessively. He pees normally.
I'm just concerned that he's affecting his appetite and potty-training.