Toilet training
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Best thing to do is continue to remind him, and try to learn his bodily signals & teach him them! You likely won’t want to celebrate potty successes the way a typical parent would, you’ll want to acknowledge it as a personal achievement of knowing their own body! Not as a goal of just going on the potty!! “Look at you knowing your own body! And you made it to the toilet too!! Good job buddy” 👍🏼 “Yaaaaay you pottied on the toilet!!!🥳” 👎🏼 Celebrating adds too much pressure & takes the focus off the real goal; having them learn their own bodies; not having them achieve goals because it’s now convenient for us
How old is your child? Can they verbalize the word potty or pee? Have you tried to have him touch his underwear and see if he’s wet? I had to teach my son the difference in the feeling of wet and dry bc his body couldn’t recognize he was wet. In fact he preferred the wet feeling. I praised and rewarded him for pulling his pants down, telling me he’s wet/dirty or needs to be changed, etc. I waited until he could tell he was wet to really train. It was months of accidents without progress until we stepped back and worked on sensing it
We’ve also been focusing more on teaching him to recognize his body sensations-hunger, thirst, pain, etc as he struggles with that. So then it’s all-you’re listening to your body and telling me so I can help you!
My 6 year old autistic boy can pee sitting and standing but also still just wets pants even if I remind him/take him potty after like he may not fully have control of holding pee/poo
Hiii people with autism tend to have poor interoception, meaning they aren’t easily able to identify the subtle signs their body is giving them! It’s unknown what causes it & it has been know to present & regress all through out the lives of those it effects (: (of course everyone is different but it’s possibly a life time side effect from being neurodivergent)