Is bed-wetting more common is children with aspergers?

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Apparently I was easier to potty-train than my NT brother was, and I was out of nappies by age 2 and a half, and I wore nappies in bed up to the age of 3, then my mum found I didn't need any nappies of pads or whatever, and I never looked back.

I wet the bed occasionally until I was about 11. It still happens rarely, maybe once a month or so. I also have a bit of a problem with, um... dribbling, for up to a minute after going to the bathroom I honestly don't find it that big of a deal.... Just a bit embarrassing.

This is the first time I've ever told anyone about this

That's why I don't like telling people I have an ASD, as I keep worrying that they might think it means I am incontinent, if not in the day then at night. Most people at work know I have an ASD, and I always try to hint that I function normally with bladder/bowel control like everybody else (without actually making them know that I am trying to specifically hint that). I know it shouldn't be embarrassing but for me it is, even though I have never had any problems with using the toilet, it's not even something I think about really, it just comes naturally, like breathing. I feel I need to pee, I just either hold it in if I don't need to go that much and then go on the toilet without hardly thinking about it, and when I need a number two (usually only once a day, sometimes don't need to go at all for a couple of days), I just go on the toilet and do what I got to do. I only usually go number two at home.

I haven't wet the bed since I was 3.

I never wetted the bed as far as I can remember altho my ma says I was slow to potty train. My brothers actually had issues with wetting the bed going on later into childhood but not me.

I never wet the bed really. I only did it occasionally and the last time I did was when I was eight.

I was a day wetter until about 10 years old. It happened almost every day. It could have been due to a urinary tract infection and anxiety but not sure.

Same thing happened to me until I was about 10 or 11 when it stopped on its own. I feel it's more proof that aspies are pruned to more issues in life, now I have insomnia.

I was fully potty-trained by 22 months, which is rather early. And I never looked back. I was out of nappies, and I was dry every night, and my mum had no trouble with me at all.

I don’t remember when I stopped wetting the bed. I probably stopped doing it at a young age.

I only occasionally wet the bed as a kid and it took me a while to get fully potty-trained and out of diapers

But I did it

I no longer wear diapers!

Incontinence and bedwetting can be common in Autism and it usually is either a muscle control issue or an interoception issue. The interception issue is where you literally cannot feel the sensation of what is happening in your body until it's too late. That is pretty common in Autism. I was also a bed wetter and I also used to pee my pants at school almost every day when I was in the first grade. Bedwetting can also happen to Autistic people in particular because we have a lot of difficulty sleeping. So when we do fall asleep, we are so exhausted that we sometimes end up in a very deep sleep and so much so that we have no idea that we are peeing or needing to.

I don't ever remember wetting my bed. My mum said I was the easiest out of the four of us to toilet train. She put me on the potty and that was it, no more need for nappies/diapers. My twin, not autistic, wet the bed until she was 11, so my mum had to deal with that.

I was and I clearly remember it.
I stopped doing it at the age of seven.

I wet the bed until I was 14. But I think it was more because of ongoing stress in my life than autism. I was bullied to the point I was suicidal but never taken seriously by school staff. I got punished for defending myself and the school wanted to send me to a school for emotional disturbed kids. Then my mom quit her job to homeschool me. Around the same time my brother and his daughter moved in unannounced. My niece was eight years younger than me and for the most part we were like sisters and had a Bluey/Bingo type relationship. But still, having her just suddenly introduced into my life like that was in a way traumatic. I was VERY dependent on routines and having a younger child suddenly thrown in there made it rather difficult to maintain those routines. I was never allowed to have a break from her unless it was in my own bedroom. We lived in the middle of nowhere basically in a forest. I oftentimes wanted to go into the forest alone. I was forbidden as a young child (even though I would anyway. I knew my way around and NEVER got lost) but allowed to in my preteen-teen years. BUT I had to let her follow me. Sometimes I needed a break from everyone OUTSIDE of my bedroom. By the time I was 14, my brother got his act together and found his own place. His daughter went with him and I had my routine back. No bullying and finally allowed to decompress, I stopped wetting my bed.