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5 y/o Tard Smearing and Diaper Shredding for 3 YearsMy five year old son is Autistic and has been fecal smearing for 3 years now and most recently has started diaper shredding. No one has any real solutions for us and it's been so frustrating. Impractical solutions like overalls, plastic pants and velcro. He can open complicated locking mechanisms and the professionals are suggesting velcro???!
I recently found some sleep suits guarnteed to prevent fecal smearing and diaper or pad shredding but they are from a company in England that won't ship to Canada....I am at my wits end and have had days when he has done it 5 or 6 times and all I can think is, "one more time and he's living somewhere else." It has to be one of the most depressing issues to deal with. No one wants feces smeared all over their home!
This shit smearing and the shredding of shitty diapers goes WAY beyond being "depressing" or "frustrating". It's a serious health hazard to everyone who comes into contact with it!Houdini TardI had tried what Anna suggested about jumpsuit with the zipper in the back, but my son who is 6years and on autism spectrum, arrived at how to take out his arm out. Unfortunately for us, it worked for couple weeks until he figured out how to take it off. Please, give us more ideas. Thank you.
Jeeez,this one here can't even be zipped up in his own shit! :headbrick
Maybe He's Constipated?You may want to have a sensory assessment done by an occupational therapist to determine whether the behaviour is driven by some sensory deficit. There may also be a physiological component to the behaviour related to the common problem of constipation and/or limited ability to communicate pain or discomfort in those with ASD. Once those possibilities have been ruled out then a behavioral assessment may help determine why the behaviour is occurring. Ie does s/he gain something or avoid something by smearing? Once you know the why you can manipulate the environment (your response) or teach an alternative behaviour to (hopefully) prevent the smearing.
I fail to see why being constipated would turn him into a full blown shit smearer once he was able to take a dump. The behavioral assessment isn't a bad idea though, although I don't see how finding out why he's doing it could help much. What ARE the common behavioral reasons for Awtard shit smearing, I wonder? Jeez, this Tard's Shit was So Rank it's Penetrated the DrywallMy son with autism also smears his poop on occasion and recently he did it all over his bedroom wall. He hadn't done it in so long we didn't realize that it could still happen. I guess we thought he outgrew that stage. My question is, How do I get the smell of poop out of the drywall? We scrubbed and scraped and cleaned with many different green options and I finally used Clorox bleach....it still smells! Any advice? Something that has worked for anyone? Thanks!
That smell will NOT "come out" of sheetrock and drywall, I discovered while wotking as a residential property appraiser. The wall will have to be replaced.. It's reasonable to assume too that where there is an odor there likely is lingering bacteria.This Tard Likes the 'Texture" of His Own ShitMy son smeared poop for many years. Doctors were no help. I discovered it was a texture issue. He was seeking that slimy, slippery texture. I began substituting playdough and slime. This helped over time. Good luck.
Eeew, just Ewwwww.::brbl
Locking It IN Won't Even Help This Determined TardOk we have tried the backwards pj's we've even use a small luggage lock @ the top. yep he still gets out of them, tried the non stretchy button downn shirt on backwards, over the top yep he figured out how to unbutton the top few buttons and got the shirt off and then wiggled out of the pj's. If i remember correctly he figured out the shirt after 3 weeks. Got any other suggestions? I think its funny how the pros suggest velcro, really? were trying to prevent smearing, and i would imagine feces is hard to get out of the small crevices of the bumpy velcro side. Safety pins are very dangerous, and if a kid pulls hard enough they will break the pin and get hurt, and in some cases get it stuck in there pj's or them selves. Need some suggestions!
Well, MAYBE if he gets stuck enough times with the pins he'll develop a negative pain response reaction and STOP, maybeMoo is Losing Her Mind After SEVEN YEARS of Shit SmearingOur 7 yr old has been doing this since infancy. I feel like
I am having a nervous breakdown. In a typical day he goes through
16 diapers or more and each time he takes one off he has poop butt and sits on the furniture or sometimes eats it. He smears anywhere he can as quickly as he can I am running out of patience and don't want to put him in residential care, but this can't continue or I will
lose what little sanity I have left. We have also tried all the solutions mentioned, medical- colonics once a week and
now he's pooping with greater ease and larger quantity- great for him, not good for us. Sensory hasn't helped and pj's with a shirt over them are a joke, how do you think he managed to smear in the first place? Oh yeah he stripped naked. As for what they do in residential facilities, I immagine they have one on ones or two on ones and may restrain the children as well as redirect. It's much easier for them to deal with as they can leave after their shift and recouperate from it, then someone new steps in.:smn
Ten Y/o She-Tard STILL Smearing(and EATING it )I'm searching for a solution too...our autistic girl is 10 yrs old and still poop smearing (since she was a toddler & even eating it)...we thought we were safe when we would put her in the footie pajamas with the zipper backwards...but, in the past few weeks she has pulled her arm inside the pajama and down her front to get to the poop in the middle of the night.
We wake up to find poop smeared all over her bed, furniture, DVDs, t.v., herself! I am so sick of it. She's non-verbal and now entering puberty so there is more genital touching going on. Potty training & therapies have been going on for years...so here I am searching again.
We've had some homemade jumpers, but these are not working either...she can reach up or through the arm, ripping the jumper even. What the heck do we do? I am envisioning a straight jacket! I've thrown out floor rugs, toys that were so disgustingly coated and other stuff...this is the worse thing about this disorder...oh, and the diapers are a joke, too - leaking and not covering the whole butt...adult diapers are made for invalids not hyperactive jumping around autistic kids. We double diaper and insert a pad - this kid seems to let it all go while she sleeps.
NO WAY I could allow that in my home for a decade, NO WAY, not even from my husband. NURSING HOME is the only answerTeen Troll TardI am 19 years of age and smear my fecies regularly. I find this hilarious and exhiliarating. I do not have autism but I am however progressing well with my smearing, I have accomplished the seat smash, wall smear and upper decker.
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"Adorable" Teen Tard-14-Still Not Potty TrainedShe is almost 14 years old and has autism. She is non verbal and adorable, but since about the age of 2 -
she has been digging in her feces she is still not potty trained). I have been in tears so many times cleaning this up. I have been looking online for years for preventative clothing and I finally took matters into my own hands and I have started making onsies with smaller necks to prevent undressing and snaps underneath (easy toilieting and work great when worn with Jeans and Belts) - or I have made bodysuits that snap in the middle of the back and are one piece and are snug fitting t shirt material that fits down to the knees. They can wear full outfits over these, no one even knows they are wearing them and it adds so much piece of mind!
WHY don't they put these kids in institutions? They have got to be ruining the rest of the family!------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
If YOU are the "exception" to what I am saying, then why does my commentary bother you so much?
I don't hate your kids, I HATE YOU!