Guest guest Posted April 26, 2012 Report Share Posted April 26, 2012 is 8 with high function ASD. He is mainstreamed in a public school and does relatively well in spite of his challenges however he continues to have issues due to his picking. He has done this for as long as I can remember and while other sensory " quirks " have faded this one remains loud and strong. He usually picks erasers, paper off crayons, paint chips off of anything he can, his cuticles, skin off of onions, candle wax, any little hole in drywall that he can make bigger etc. He got in trouble today at school for damaging a child's shoe by picking off the rubber. He told me he couldn't help it. This incident inspired a long chat about picking with him and he told me he feels a tingly sensation in his hands and his arms when he does it and it feels so good he can't help himself. I had an idea to prepare a box of picking goodies for him to use at home for anytime that he needed to pick so that he could do it appropriately and stop destroying things in my house. I also thought we could keep a pencil box of appropriate pickable items in his backpack so that he can use 5 min of each recess to pick with his own things instead of destroying other people's things. The goal for me is " how can I make this appropriate? " . On the other hand I worry that this will encourage the picking and I would actually prefer that he didn't do it at all. He says he doesn't think he go all day at school without picking stuff. Has anyone ever heard of ways to desensitize picking? Shana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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