
Asperger Syndrome Support Group
Asperger syndrome - also referred to as Asperger's syndrome, Asperger's, Aspergers or just AS - is one of five neurobiological pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and is characterized by deficiencies in social and communication skills, normal to above normal intelligence, and standard language development.

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My son has Aperger Syndrome and is 5 years old. He can read on a sixth grade level, knows his alphabet, can write, can spell and write his name, he knows all of his letters and numbers but he can't catch on to potty training. We have tried everything. He will go (peepee) if we put him on the potty but he doesn't or can't tell us that he needs to go before using his diaper. It's very hard for us to understand and we don't know what to do about the situation. He is still not in school or daycare due to his not being potty trained. Can any one offer some advise, help with understanding, anything? We don't know what to do about school. What should we do? Love to all. Take care and God bless you and your's.
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PS: If you don't already know, I am diagnosed high functioning autistic
Every child (AS or not) is unique and so there is no one "right" way to handle it.
M opinion though, is that regardless of whether your child is AS, but even more so if he is:
DON'T make a big deal about it! Doing so will only serve to focus attention on the "problem", and make him feel inadequate. I made that mistake with my oldest, and all it did was mke the problem worse. It wasn't until we began to treat each incident as if it was really okay, and just an accident that we began to see changes. We began to ask HIM whether he wanted to be potty trained, and whether he preferred to be clean. We asked him how we could help. No, he didn't always have answers, or even understand, and many of his suggestions were self serving (pay me money - ha ha). But as we dept feeding him ideas of ways to help, he would evaluate them, and tell us, "no that wouldn't work," or "That might help, let's try that."
Basically, we tried to LET him have the power, and tried to help him (and at the same time us) understand what his own motivations were. This is an approach we still use. He is now eleven, and his younger brother (the good night wearer) still wears good nights. We decided not to press it. We congratulate him highly when he wakes up dry, and say nothing when he doesn't.
Hope this helps, but like I said, every child is unique.
My daughter is very intelligent. She is almost 4 years old. She is beginning to read, and is very academically oriented. However, Potty Training is NOT happening for her. She is diagnosed HFA. Little sister (not even 2 years yet) is already starting to potty train. I, in extreme frustration, discuss with my husband (also HFA) if this is normal in his family. He said that he wasn't fully potty trained until age 14. His sister not until age 10. His nephew not until age 7. I am beginning to see the trend. Not that it made me feel any better, but it told me that perhaps this was an issue out of my daughter's control and that we would be working on this awhile. Her brain and body don't communicate so well at times, and she doesn't know she needs to go potty until she is actually in the process of going.