Bedwetters anonymous

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Okay now...complete honesty people....
Who here pee-pee'd the bed? I did until I was almost 12. My husband did too! We had a good laugh about it when we were dating. We're both aspie. I had an aspie friend who did and my child still does...another aspie! It's got me thinkin'!

I did till 8 or 9, then started up again briefly in high school when I was going through a stressful time.

Have no problem with talking about toilet stuff.
Am p-d the bed when younger-during sleep,but also sometimes did it when awake due to a sensory problem with understanding feel for going toilet,sometimes it would happen after a seizure as well.
Am still have the same problems [sensory,and post seizure] but not the going-to-toilet-in-sleep one,think that stopped happening in teenage years.
Worst think about p..ing the bed is having to buy a new quilt every time if a 'kylie sheet' isn't on, because it costs too much to get a cheap quilt washed in the laundry place.

I did until maybe 10.

I was a bedwetter too, but my doc put me on DDAVP, which was a lifesaver for a teen.

I did till I was seven.

Thanks for posting this, OP. I've been wondering if this a spectrum thing or if I was just very delayed.
I did it regularly until I was 10 1/2, then I stopped for about half a year. The first night we spent in a new place on vacation just after I turned 11, it happened again. I was so terribly embarrassed. Thankfully that was the last time.

I think 'enuresis' (the medical term) is quite common, or at least it's not unusual, among people on the spectrum.

So far, there's just been anecdotal evidence, people mentioning it on places like WrongPlanet and AspiesForFreedom, and some research that backs up those experiences, some research refers to enuresis, including nocturnal enuresis being a problem among children on the spectrum, to an age greater than their NT siblings or classmates.

But so far, it's not included in the diagnostic criteria as an indicator for autistic spectrum conditions, although I don't know whether it's statistically prevalent enough.

And there doesn't seem to have been any research carried out to this particular part of the brain or the role it has in bodily functions, why it seems to function differently in many people on the autistic spectrum, or at least anecdotal evidence would suggest this.

I wet the bed sometimes and then on occasions when I was little. I last did it when I was 8. I don't see what's so embarrassing about it because tons of kids do it.

I did til I was 8 or so.

Until I was almost 13.

I was never a bedwetter, thank the Maker. Because I had tons of embarrassing moments involving grossness in school, including sh*****g on myself in first grade (because I had diarrhea and had intestinal cramps and asked to go to the bathroom, but nothing came out, so I went back to class, and then I really urgently suddenly had to s**t and I thought the teacher would be mad at me if I asked to go to the bathroom again so I tried to hold it in but couldn't) and pissing on myself in second grade (because our teacher yelled at you with a LOUD ANGRY booming voice if you asked to go to the bathroom and denied people permission to go to the bathroom) and pissing on myself several times in kindergarten (because I was too shy to ask to use the restroom). Then I had a snot problem until I was about 18. And once or twice in grade 7 I had no tampons on me and used kleenex instead and then some fell out and it was stained red with menstrual blood and my enemies, like 3 or 4 girls, noticed. This is the first time I've told anyone about pissing and sh*****g myself in school, except for when I told my boyfriend last year. It was so embarrassing that I tried to keep a low profile in the high school that I went to where all the kids there had gone to elementary school with me and knew about my embarrassing moments in kindergarten and grades 1 and 2. But the more I tried to keep a low profile, the more attention I got. Because I tried to keep a low profile by not making friends or being my opinionated adventurous loud-mouth self, they thought I was the total opposite of what I was and they found it wierd and disgusting and picked on me because of my shyness and that. When I switched over to the school where my old classmates were, and learned that my old friend who was there had switched from that school to another school, I thought, "What if those kids remember that I shat and pissed on myself?" And they did. On the first day of school, when I walked in the door, this jerk, Nick C., who bothered me in elementary school said "Remember when you peed on your chair?" and then this other girl said, "She s**t herself in Mrs. Walker's computer class in grade 2." (It was actually in grade 1.) And then this other girl said that I peed in my pants in grade 4, but I hadn't; Nick C. had put glue on my chair and then shouted "She peed!" She then teased me about it, saying "Eeeew, what's that smell! You can go to the bathroom, you know, you're allowed! That's disgusting!" I swear to God I have PTSD from all this.


I'm so glad that after all those years I finally got that off my chest!

I can't believe teachers can still get away with being "toilet tyrants."

Some people pee and poop the bed to keep molesters away so they can get a good nights sleep. Regular bed-wetting is caused by the bladder and brain not being in sync.