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06 Jun 2010, 6:06 am

VeryWorriedDad wrote:
Thanks alot everyone for all your comments and advice. So far this evening there has been no problems with her peeing or in pain. Took her to doctors and the doc said to take a urine sample so they can send it off for testing so have done that now.
liloleme i very sure now that we have given her mixed messages with the potty training so we are now going to forget it for a while and see if she starts peeing as normal. We was worried about nappies as some schools in the UK wont accept children if they are still in them so i think we rushed it a bit and thats caused the problems.
The way i see it now is if she wants to take her time with potty training then she can :)
Feel a bit happier now so thx all for the help :)



i live in the uk and my son is 5 i found that as long as you go and alk to the school they are understanding and will do what they can (armed forces family) we have had 2 schools with him so far and both are fine but you need to start the assesment process now go to the dr and get refered at a hospital for futher testing because it takes forever and she will need all the back ground infomation for a diagnosis later on but as i keep beeing told expect it to drag on as they will call it deayed development with possible ASD untill about the age of 7 if they are high functioning



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07 Jun 2010, 8:21 am

I think that kids should be potty trained, when they're ready, and not on some superficial society made schedule that says to start between 18 months and two and a half years and all kids are trained by their third Birthday. I wasn't completely trained until I was 3 and a half, and I don't think it's much of an issue, at all.


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07 Jun 2010, 9:13 am

Thanks everyone.
This has made me feel a bit better and that there is help out there.Our doctors are absolutely useless. They have been telling us that she has constipation and she is having a temper tantrum ! !! My god! I felt like going to the surgery and flooring the Doc ! As if it was a temper tantrum ! They just dont seem educated in this subject at all. Is there any web links from the UK that any of you know of where i could talk to someone that specialises in this subject? like i said our local GP's are very bad to the point of us changing our doctors.



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07 Jun 2010, 5:15 pm

VeryWorriedDad

If you have even an inkling that you should change docs and you have the ability to do so, do it! Having a doc who will listen and be supportive is very important. I'm in the US so can't really help with the doc situation but here's a book that you might find worth taking a look at

Special-Needs Kids Eat Right by Judy Converse.

I can't say I agree with some of the things she says but she gives a lot of information about how unseen things going on inside kids' digestive tracks can be contributing to some behaviors they exhibit. It seems that gastrointestinal problems are more common with kids on the spectrum and there are steps that can be taken to relieve some of there discomfort.



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12 Jul 2010, 8:32 am

My ASD 3 year old is terrified of the potty.. to loud! 2 1/2 seems very late to start walking and yeah, hand flapping is a sign, but a lot of "typical" children hand flap when they get exited. My 21 month old hand flaps just walking around with no emotions. The food preference could go either way too. And the nightmare thing is something I have gone through with both my 14 and 3 year old ASD kids, they both woke up off and on ALL night long. But in my experience, they do tend to out grow this, @ least my 14 year old has. The 3 year old use to wake up at night and just talk to herself too, but since I moved her baby sister in her room she seems to be sleeping better at night. The best thing to do is to have her evaluated. Good luck! :D