potty training & aspergers

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I was potty trained sometime after my 3rd birthday, and the same was true with my niece, but she's definitely NT. Then again, my parents believed in waiting until the kid was ready before starting potty training, and my brother was the same way about my niece. As for my own development, it was slightly delayed, but once I started talking, you couldn't get me to shut up. I was reading full sentences by the time I was in kindergarten, so I basically went to mainstream schools and in regular classes. I did go to preschool at a school for special needs students, but it was obvious I was too high functioning to continue there.

i don't recall, but according to my parents my potty training was nothing out of the norm. HOWEVER, that was when i was awake. i had issues wetting the bed until i was 11 or 12. it was embarrassing, but my body would simply not sense that i needed to go and wake me up during the night. i've always had issues sleeping, so that may have played into it in some way as well.

so, i've been told that my potty training wasn't anything unusual, but i wet the bed for many, many years.

Well I'm not diagnosed but I was potty trained before I was two. However I had motivation, I had super bad diaper rash. I'm female.

My daughter (5) is diagnosed with AS and she was potty trained at about 2 years 10 months or so. But... it was weird. She basically didn't care until one day she was sitting on the potty and she looked at me and said "Mommy. It makes you happy when I use the potty?" And I said "I love you no matter what, but I do like it when you use the potty." and she said "It makes you happy. I'll use it from now on." And she did (other than a few bedwetting incidents). It. Was. Bizarre. She is very advanced verbally in case you are wondering how I had this conversation with a kid who wasn't even 3 yet. My other daughter is about that age now and she can barely string a couple words together let alone have a conversation like that.

Anyway DD5 definately has aspergers, no question. Hers just looks pretty different since she's a girl and she talks like an 8 year old...

I trained late

i was at 4, but i never knew why i did it, because my parents made me. my doctor said i wouldn't till i was 8, and i think maybe that would've been better for me. you can't assume all aspies are late on it, but sometimes, that's the way it goes. you should only potty train aspie kids if they really really feel up to it, not forced by their parents.

I was 4 or 5 I think, don't remember it. My NT sister was around the same age.