Hi all.

My son is 5 and has ASD. From the end of nursery until we moved to this house where we live now , he was perfectly toilet trained. Unfortunately when the boys and I first moved in with my partner, in August of last year, my autistic son was constipated, and of course when he went to the toilet it hurt him. Since then I have been unable to get him to use the toilet, unless it's to do a wee. His LSA and I are at the end of our tethers with it, as we have to keep cleaning him when he goes in his pants. Sometimes he does it three times a day, because he's not always allowing himself to go properly - this also is a health worry, he will end up not well if he keeps on like this.

He is not low functioning, and knows exactly what he's doing. It's an anxiety thing, I'm sure of it, because of his experience with painful constipation -- but despite understanding the why, we've yet to figure out a how to talk him into using the toilet again. He will be 6 years old in June.
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