I am a nurse student and I am currently watching this from Kosova, the reason I love your channel and have been watching you guys for a long time is because I am currently working with autistic children and will work in the future as that's what I've chosen to do after I get licensed. I watch your videos religiously and I have learned so much on how to show empathy and be cautious for autistic people (especially children) and be able to have a healthy communication with them. As always, thank you and I hope all of you are doing great. Much love ❤️

My son was not potty trained until age 8. He stopped being in diapers a long time ago, but then we put pull-ups on him. He was getting better at going to the bathroom. At age 8, I let us run out of pull-ups and told him we were out. I put them on for school only, so he wouldn’t have an accident at school and be embarrassed. He was mostly potty trained at 8 and could go all day without a pull-up and go to the bathroom. He was only wearing it at night. We weaned him from pull-ups (gradually) and the strategy worked. Every child is different, so we can help them along the way to progress, but don’t push them too hard.

LOL! I loved the fake monocle part. Thank you and Alistair for sharing. It really helps us families struggling with potty training.

This was actually how my mom got me to use the potty when I was little. The deal was, in order to go to public school, kindergarten, I had to be able to use the potty, no accidents, and wash hands well, I was just finishing preschool when the deal was made and I worked with my occupational therapists and mom and family helped, and by the time I was supposed to be enrolled, I had everything down pat. Was a great idea of my mom back then. I do not think if she had chosen this path would I have ever even made it to public school, or I would at least be in the special ed class and probably end up there permanently.

I know for a lot of people this is not a subject that they like to talk about. I was diagnosed with autism as a young child and I went through a lot of problems with using the number 2 as well. My parents said at first I would follow my brother to the bathroom and watch him use it. Which I started doing as well. But it started hurting and causing a lot of pain. Which caused a lot of problems. I started getting constipation. My parents tried everything they could think of. Then they tried something like you did. They had it everytime I went to the bathroom and did it I was given a quarter in a jar. I took several months but I started going. Yes I still had problems but they knew it would work out in the end. I still had problems all through my childhood and even in my teen years. But I was going but not always able to go on my own. I told this because I know what you are doing does work. There maybe up and downs but people with autism do get it. It just takes us longer than the normal person. I am happy he is doing good. To many people give up or result to spanking or punishment. That only makes things go in reverse not forward like we all want it to go. I grew up in the 70's and 80's. My parents and doctors say I am still like a kid but I don't care I am me and I am happy. We just want to be just like a normal person.

Congratulations and to cheers to many more milestones. My son is finally potty trained at 8 1/2 and no bed wetting since memorial weekend. Still working on being proficient at #2 wiping but I’m patient. This channel has helped through many difficult challenges. Many thanks and blessings to your family.

Good job Allistair! I remember when I was Alistair's age, I would refuse to use the bathroom at school because the toilets were so loud. I don't even know how I managed to hold it in all day. By fourth grade, I finally got past that in which I'm glad I did

Hi! 😁 I love how you make sure your kids are comfortable enough to post videos about them! Good video I try to study a lot about autism and this helps a lot!!

As one who also has autism and have been trying to research more as I live with it and these videos are super helpful and I'm 25 now but still learn new things about autism through your videos

Congrats on the potty training! I have two boys on the spectrum, 4 & 5 and we’re gonna try this method. Thanks for the advice and sharing your family’s journey.

Well done Alistair! Huge progress!

Thank you and your son for allowing us to see this. It’s very helpful. Congratulations to both him and you🤗

I’m so happy that your son’s potty training was a success🙂! Although I have no one in my family has autism, this was very educational for me. I learned something new🙂! Thanks for sharing with us👍! Love you all and God bless✝️🙏🏻❤️🙂🌈!

Oh my gosh, when I was 2 years old back in the late 70's, I 've potty trained myself by not using the diaper. So, this was when my parents where truck driving and, we were in Long Island, New York at that time. My Mom was getting ready to change my diaper like she would normally do everyday etc. When she had noticed that I was dry, she woke my Dad up and the next minute he was in the truck driving seat finding a restaurant for me to use the bathroom. Both my parents and I went inside the restaurant, ran straight into the women's restroom. I did my business of you will pardon me for it, my Mom was so happy I did used the toilet along with my Dad as well. Thank you so much for sharing your video since, I 'm a 46 year old woman with Apsburger Autism Spectrum. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!☺ Anita Augenti

Alistair, I am proud of you :) Very big thank you to all your Family for every video, have a good time and enjoy your life! Greetings from Ireland :)

I am glad you shared this video, to share the challenges and triumphs. We were in the same boat. the wiping took years. His rewards were Thomas. I believe consistency mattered, once they were physically able to recognize elimination patterns.

I know that was a huge hurdle! I’m in the process with my son now but he recently used the potty all by himself without us asking so I’m hopeful!!

Awesome job, Alistair! Enjoy your Hot Wheels. You've earned them. I'm proud of you too.

Great job, Alastair! I was also late with potty training but I was a year younger once I was potty trained at the age of 6. I’m glad you guys figured out what works and enjoy your diaper free days!

This is very helpful. My son is eight with autism and we’ve been waiting til he can talk to take that hurdle, and now it’s here. Thank you.

I love how you ask your children for permission to post videos about him and explain what will be discussed in the video. I hate that so many ppl think that just because someone has ASD or any other type of special needs that they will not understand/care when people talk/post videos or pics about them. I work in special education with students with ASD (those that are more severe on the spectrum), are very limited on speech (most speech is done by scripting), and moderate to severe emotional and behavioral disorders/conditions, and will tell you my students ABSOLUTELY know what others are saying about them. My favorite thing is when we are in FC class and my wonderful students will say EXACTLY what they heard someone say about them or how sad and or mad it made them feel. The look on staff's face (this is usually new staff that is told our students are not stupid just learn and view the world differently but dont listen or staff that you know are only there foe a paycheck). I also think the approach you took to potty training was great and in a way that does not shame your child if they have an accident (talking about spanking, belittling, etc.). While my 2 daughters are not on the spectrum I did take this approach to help potty train them and it worked better than any other method I had tried before hand. At work we have also done the same approach with students who began have frequent accidents at school due to behavioral reasons with great results. But we do not use this approach with students who are having accidents due to trauma they have endured at home or somewhere outside of school(that is something completely different and requires the help of a behavioral specialist to really reach the root of the problem and sadly sometimes CPS if abuse is suspected).

Congratulations Alistair!

You make so much effort to please the youtube gods! I get it… going back to the video, my son is five and within the spectrum potty training is so challenging. What an amazing video yet again from autism family. ❤

I just discovered your channel and love your family and the videos you publish. The autism potty training done video helped my family so much. My son is 7, almost 8 and just now getting potty trained. I used the same toy for motivation and it worked! I wanted to say thank you for putting yourselves out there. You’re truly making a difference. 💙

What a brilliant video on this! So good of you to share it and it's true the money on nappies and wipes is more expensive. My friends son wasn't toilet trained until he was 10 it was very hard. Well done to your little guy and you!

Well done Alastair! Thank you for sharing your video. It is must helpful to others dealing with this issue.

Thanks for posting this. We’ve been on a hiatus from training our 6 y/o for a few months, after steadily trying for the past year. I’m trying to look for a new approach since the last try was pretty fruitless and stressful. He’s semi-verbal and has lately started bargaining with us for treats, so I think I’ll try enticing him with a big ticket item to work towards.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing. Your channel is so helpful!

My autistic son finally starting going #2 in the toilet instead of his pants around the beginning of 2022 before his 8th birthday. For a while, I was really afraid that I would still be changing his diaper when he was an adult; He was just so stubborn about it that the potty training felt hopeless. We tried everything including rewards since he was 3. I think part of it is that his gut issues finally improved. We no longer have to give him supplements for constipation. His favorite candy is Twix bars and I told him the only time he can have them is when he goes on the toilet. He would go in the bathroom and try hard for those Twix bars. He only goes about twice a week but at least its soft and not hard bricks. He really likes to use a kitchen timer. He watches the timer count down and when it gets to a certain number (of his choosing) then he lets it all go. Also, when he was around 5 or so, we were told by several different sources that their autistic sons started going when they were around 8. Interesting that it worked out that way for us too.

Yeah I struggled with potty training too.

I'm so proud of Alistair and the other two kids(Ian and Connor),they are doing pretty well,sometimes I wish I can being as good as them Currently I'm trying to studying GED(I drop out of high school because of my mental illness),I hope I can study it well and get GED,after that I can study SAT and go to college,my dream is going to live in USA one day

Allister I am a big fan of seeing you happy on the videos. I love your personality and upbeat attitude. I still stim like that as an adult. Also Allister can be more independent and have a sleepover for example no worries. I feel confident that we will see videos of all 3 happy and making you thanksgiving dinner one day. They might have autism but they all have fun personalities that people want to be around.

I am so happy that it worked out so well. I am so glad that he is doing well!.

Well done! It is hard enough for neurotypical children! My 5 year old has really come and long way and uses the potty but cannot tell me when he needs to go which is so challenging. But he has made progress.

My 4 year old has autism and this gives me hope for our own potty training journey. I appreciate you asking Allister it if was okay to share. It's a sensitive topic. Thank you Allister for being brave and sharing. You are a great help and encouragement. I'm so happy for you that you can go potty and wipe too! Big skills! Those hot wheels sets are so awesome 😎👍 🌈 🦋

Great job Alistair! I wish my parents had the patience and naturally nurturing type of parenting skills you guys do… hope you are all well, thanks for another great video

Great info.. Great delivery .🤗 Loads of love there.👍 Thanks for sharing!

Thank you Alastair! this is very helpful for other kids and parents.

for the most people it's an inconvenient topic, but you have it done very well... 👍

its good to give advce about potty training cause i think it is important way to go dude keep up the good videos.

This is dedication!!!

I’m glad you figured out a reward for him good ideas he seems so happy wit his toy too

Thanks for this video. We have two autistic children in our church, one is 2 and the other 4 and we have been on the 4 year old parents case to get him potty trained to attend the kid's classes for his age and be able to fully transition him out of the toddler class but they have Autistic Child Denial and keep saying he will potty train and learn to use his words when "he" is ready. It's gotten to the point to where most of us are tired of how the parents are treating their son,we wish that child services would come in to take him away because the father constantly is spanking him sometimes for nothing because they don't seem to fully understand that their child is autistic. The 2 year old on the other hand has good parents that noticed right away he had Autism and got him the necessary therapy and is two steps ahead the 4 year old and can use his words and soon might be potty training.

Thank you so much for your videos and sharing with us. This has helped me and my spouse tremendously with our 6 year old who is on the spectrum. 🌺

All of your kids seem 2 be doing fantastic!! Great job 2 everyone..

I remember my mum told me that I had to read a special custom book that would tell me how go. The book would say things like "Lilly gets on the toilet" "Lilly sits on the toilet" you get the idea.

Just found your videos. My daughter is 5 1/2. She was diagnosed with severe ADHD, but is going to be tested for autism in April. We feel quite sure she’ll be on the spectrum, though high functioning. Anyway, I see a lot of similarities including her still not being night time trained. I sometimes feel like the only one, but your videos have been so helpful. Thank you

Thank you for this video it's very helpful to me ,am from East Africa my son is autistic and your videos help me learn more about it

This is great! I am potty training my 3 year old that is on the spectrum. I know it will take some time, but I make him go every 2-3 hours and he is very comfortable going but he just doesn’t ask to go on his own yet. He will be 4 in July and I am hoping he will be at least day trained by then

Good job. it took me a while to be potty trained too. I have a disability too. Everybody learns in on time. Keep up the good work.

We love him we love you guys

Awesome! I’m sure that’s a huge relief for him too, much less to deal with😄 I was potty trained fine but then I had a really bad bedwetting phase for a long time when I was his age, was very glad to be rid of it😂

Well done alistar! 💙 You can also get a mattress for bedwetting problem in case he dose wet him self in the middle of the night just to be on the safe side

I potty trained my 2 autistic boys (then 7 and 5yrs) in a matter of hours during lockdown. I was highly stressed, depressed and at home with just the both of them. The house was a big mess and I had no help. Their dad was sick admitted to hospital and until then he cooked most of the meals and helped with a lot of the household chores. Both were in diapers and 1 of the 2 had smudged some poo on toilet wall. I was so stressed I got into a 5min fit of rage with both standing in front of me. I looked both in the eye and told them that from that moment on, neither one would be wearing diapers and both would use the toilet appropriately. I was yelling the whole time even I scared myself!!!!!! From that moment on they both used the toilet appropriately.

I am raising my autistic granddaughter. And one day she came running through the house and knocked out a front tooth. Because of how her teeth were they took the other front one out and put partials in. That didnt work for her, she would not wear them. Then they put a new pair in that were wired to her other teeth. She took a fork and dug them out. Then they put braces in. She would cry almost every time we went to get them adjusted. After they came off she needed front teeth. I wanted implants put in, but insurance wouldnt pay for that. (Its cosmetic) so my only other option was to wire a partial in again. She fretted and fretted over it. So one day I told her that if she would do it without complaint, crying or prying them out I would give her $200. She came out without 1 peep. It's been a year now and she is still good! Even after she spent her money. Best $200 I ever spent in my life!

On your video on Halloween ian is taller than his mom he doesn’t look 14 he looks 18 his voice is getting deeper how is Connor doing today

Thanks for this video!!!

I’ve always known it takes a longer time to Potty Train for most with Autism like me, heck I knew it took time for me! As someone who is a teen struggling with Autism, I feel for your family as I feel for my mother when she helped me with Potty Traning, I wish everyone who is parenting a child with Autism learns this, it will be ok! I wish Alistair the best of luck in life!

So glad he's going to the toilet well. My son is only 2 1/2 but is no where near even starting the thought process of potty training. He's not yet been diagnosed with ASD as he's still to young. But communication is a huge issue. He also super loves hot wheels. They are his thing. No other toy will do. Except some other cars. It took me till I was 7 to get fully out of nappies, so I'm not going to rush him, he'll let us know when he's more ready to learn. But the toy thing is a great idea I may be able to use when he's a bit older and he can hopefully communicate better with us. Thank you.

Really enjoyed your side of this problem ,we did the same thing with our son ,he got a car evey time he went to the toilet ,it started with hot wheels but then we found supermarket generic brand cheeper but it was what he wanted,a bit of bribing can go a long way ,good look with all your journeys it's always ongoing .👍😀

I really want to thank you for this videos I have a daughter 5 years old with autism and I am struggling with the potty training and this help me a lot 🙏🏼

Ho family! Thanks for the nice video. Well done, Alistair! Good job! All of the video's have an educational function I follow the video with the transcription and it helpt me a lot. I hope that everything is fine with all of you. A big hug from the Netherlands. 🇳🇱😃❤️🇺🇲

THANK YOU 🙏💕

You’re the man alistar !!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Great job, Allister!! We are really struggling with our 5 yo ASD/ADHD/SPD non-verbal son and potty training. He was doing great filling up sticker charts and getting M&M's as rewards and he did awesome going #1, but never went #2. Then for some unknown reason he developed a fear of the toilet and sometimes the bathroom itself. We're trying to figure out how to make him comfortable with the toilet again and not afraid. His special education preschool teacher has started playing with toys in the bathroom to try to make it a fun, comfortable space.

@AutismFamilyChannel Ngl .. I was quite intrigued at first about the way you manage your kids in your videos being always cool and calm and emotionally detached for the sake of a proper observation...in the sense that you treat them just like NT kids unlike some ASD parents I know that treat their kids as having a handicap. Each one is on a different level of severity of the spectrum, I know, but you do a wonderful job being sharp, concise and offering great support to them. Which is probably why your kids although on spectrum, are actually extremely sensitive, smart and aware of themselves. For eg, taken separately would have never guessed Connor is on spectrum tbh .. such a wonderful kid. God bless you all.

I needed this video thank you 🙏

Alester is a good little Trooper for this video he reminds me a lot my 5yr old ❤

So helpful!

My cousin who has autism did had a problem with going to the bathroom at young age, he would take water pills every night to help him go to the bathroom when he couldn’t. You son alester just needed time to adjust when it came time for him to use the potty.😊😊😊

Hey, I’m have autism and I’m from Canada and I have to say that every time I watch your video and I learn a lot of things about this stuff. I have to admit this the best content I enjoy so far.

Hi I live in Ireland Dublin I have autism to I'm 12 years plus I love Ian and Conner and of course allister

I'm having such hard time with #2 my son is high functioning but non verbal. I know he can do it because he has done it before. 🙏 We will get there

Thank you sir.

Thanks so much. This is great idea. I’m ashamed to admit but my son is much older and still having potty issues. So I’ll give this idea worth a try. Thank you so much!!

Excellent video !

Good job dude!

No, he doesn't understand what that means. My parents put me through similar experiences, and at the age of 30 I'm now finally in therapy discovering how I had no control of decisions elders made..even if at the time I said it was okay. I was a child, I had no idea, and I trusted the adults that said it was okay.

Great! I’m still working with my daughter she’s 10 years old. Some days good other days relapse! Thank you!😊

Congrats Alistair! :D i hope he sees this !!

Way to go, Alastair!

Well done Alistair!! You are a star 🌟!! My 3.10 year old girl is partially potty trained recently. If she wants to poo or pee, she pulls her pants down, goes to toilet. But still can't flush or wash her hands yet. Still, it's a progress from what she was until couple of months back. We took an 8 hr flight to Singapore and staying here for last 3 days. All without diapers on her.

I remember when my 1st grade sped teacher got me toys when I set word goals

My 4.5 year old son has asd and is still in nappies. He has no issues doing wees but coz of his limited and poor diet he’s always had issues pooing. He has been taking osmolax on a daily basis to help and it definitely has helped but he holds onto it until he can’t hold the poo in for any longer and then it comes out in an explosion. He doesn’t have an issue sitting on the toilet but he’s only once had a wee on the potty but he prefers sitting on the toilet with an insert. He’s yet to have a wee or poo in the toilet. I guess just have to keep trying and hope eventually he will and then go over the top with praise

That's really good for Alistair! I also have autism and for me the age that I became completely potty trained was age 8. I didn't really have a lot of trouble with number 1 but I had a lot of trouble with number 2, I was having accidents a lot even during the day. I remember all the times my parents would make me sit on the toilet for sometimes up till an hour long until i did my business, I remember back when I was having accidents during the day they said that if I have an accident in the pool (Every Sunday me, my brother who is really severe on the spectrum and my Dad would go to the autism swim every sunday) I would not come swimming with them the next week. By the time I was 8, I would mostly just be having accidents at night (It would be pretty much every night) so they had a chart that showed if I had accidents at night. Another thing I remember is that I was at a birthday party one night that had a sleepover and I remember really wanting to stay for the sleepover after the party and my Dad said that I couldn't because he didn't want them to have to clean me up in the morning and of course I was really upset. Eventually though before I turned 9 I finally got it. My brother also had really extreme struggles with being potty trained and had accidents a lot. It was even harder for him than it was for me because as I already mentioned his autism is very severe and even now at the age of 19 he struggles a tiny bit. I remember our parents getting mad at us when we were stil having accidents at that age when most kids are completely potty trained. But yeah those times were very difficult for the 2 of us and the rest of the family

I am going to use your technique try to toilet teach him. We still struggling my son is 5. Your channel definitely made me more inform about autism. I am from UK we don't get much information ones we get diagnosed.

When a child on the spectrum (or any child for that matter) is toilet training a certain degree of awareness of what the body is doing and a certain level of verbal understanding is required. It’s good to see that Alistair just had a good ninth birthday (the candles on the cake look like they might have been the relighting kind. In my experience those were funny (and a bit confusing) the first time, but after that it was just annoying) and his speech is still coming along and that (from the looks of it) he still seems to be toilet trained. I had a right hemisphere stroke when I was born due to a premature birth and I’m also on the autism spectrum. I also have a very mild form of cerebral palsy. It had some effect of my speech, eye-hand coordination, and walking when I was growing up. I was very wobbly on my feet and tended to fall down a lot. These days (after years of adaptive PE when I was in school) it mostly affects my speech (primarily how I say the letter “r”). I was level two on the spectrum when I was younger but I’m level one now. It took a long time for me to get there because back in the 1970s and 1980s they didn’t have the therapies that they have now. Like Alistair, one thing that I struggled with a lot was toilet training. My mother bought me a potty chair around 18 months to two years of age and introduced it to me right away but I didn’t understand what it was for at first. Back in those days the “urine training first” method was trendy. Based on the fact that Alistair also completed his bowel training last it would seem that the “urine training first” method has made a bit of a comeback. The major pro of that method is that the floor and furniture generally stay cleaner at an earlier point in time. The major con is that for most children bowel awareness develops first and delaying this part of training may cause most children (both autistic and neurotypical) to take a longer time to finish their training (sometimes much longer). In your video you were indicating that Alistair was somewhat stubborn and that he might have perhaps been using manipulation tactics to get his Hot Wheels. It’s possible that this is true to a degree (especially if he’s level one, but I don’t remember his autism level so I’m unsure about this). I noticed in earlier videos that Alistair struggled quite a bit with verbal development when he was younger (possibly even more than I did when I was that age). I noticed that more recently he has made a great deal of progress in this area (even if he has had some speech regression off and on (especially during the Summer months when activities are less structured)). His recent verbal development has probably helped him to finish his toilet training since he now understands what is expected of him. It’s possible (even likely) that (despite appearances to the contrary) that he didn’t really understand this before. While I said my first word pretty much on schedule the words I learned after that did not come as quickly. I learned to say “moon” at age one (according to my parents). My baby book indicates that around 18 months (just about the time that my potty chair was introduced) the only other words in my vocabulary were “cat” and “clock”. I was at least as old as three when I knew words like “mama” and “dada”. By around age four I knew words like “up”, “down”, “yes”, “no”,”water”, and “potty”. Some time in the four-and-a-half to five year age range I was also able to understand words like “pee-pee”,”poo-poo”, “bath”, “all done”, and some other words and phrases with similar meanings. I was also able to ask basic questions like “What’s that?”. From what I remember I actually remember it actually came out sounding more like “What that?”. “Why?” and other questions would come later. It was also around this age that I was learning basic words for parts of the body (Like the words in the “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” song), and certain words and concepts such as “wet” and “dry”. It was only around this time that I started to make it to the downstairs toilet at home somewhat consistently (Other toilets would come a bit later starting at age five-and-a-half in preschool) when I needed to “go”. My clearest memories started around age three (although I have some memories here and there from age two, or even slightly younger (For example I remember my parents unboxing my potty chair and setting it up in front on the heating duct in the downstairs bathroom)). My biggest issues with training involved understanding what was expected of me and when and being able to hold it long enough to get to the toilet. Due to the conditions that I have my pelvic floor muscles have never been particularly strong. Given that my pediatrician believed in only beginning bowel training after urine training had been completed the result is that my bowel training only began after my fourth birthday. I was essentially bowel trained by my late sixes or early sevens (my daytime diapers came off for the most part just before age six when I started kindergarten). I would continue to have a number of daytime bowel accidents even at age eight (and less often at age nine (or even slightly older, like ten (especially during the summer))) that looked like “on-purposes” to the outside observer (even though they were genuine accidents the vast majority of the time). When I was younger many of my “wetting accidents” (and some of the other kind) that were not a result of a loss of muscular control (especially after I turned five) were a result of misunderstandings about what I was supposed to do in a given situation. For example, at that age I didn’t understand sarcasm yet. Therefore if I was sitting in my car seat (or in a shopping cart at the grocery store, for example) and I indicated that I was about to have an accident and my mother said that it was “Just great” or “fantastic” I would think that she was giving me permission to “go”. In these situations I usually had a Pamper on but not always. I wonder if some of Alistair’s difficulties with his training could have been caused by misunderstandings such as this when he was younger. After all, many parents tend to use sarcasm in situations such as this. Another issue that came up with my toilet training was that I took longer than most kids to understand that words can have more than one meaning. For example when I was around age five my mother was teaching me about traffic lights and she would do this as follows. When the light turned red she would stop the car and point to the traffic light and say “Red, stop!”. Then when the light turned green she would say “Go, mommy and Tommy!” and then move the car forward. Early on when she did this I only understood the word “go” to be a reference to “going to the bathroom”. This led to quite a few “mistakes” when I was sitting in my car seat. It was only around the time that I started kindergarten (around age six) that I understood that the word “go” has at least two meanings and I no longer made that mistake. Thinking back to that one Halloween a number of years back I wonder if Connor might have had similar misunderstandings off and on when he was around preschool or kindergarten age. I remember in that one video you were saying “Go Connor!” just before the video changed to the next scene when you were back at home. If he didn’t yet understand that the word “go” has two or more meanings and he misinterpreted what you were saying to him it might explain what happened. If Connor made mistakes like this for that reason it’s possible (even likely) that Alistair did as well at that age. This would seem to be a fairly common type of misunderstanding for someone on the spectrum at an early age. This is not a result of a lack of intelligence (despite what a few of my close relatives (for example) continue to believe). My IQ today is around 125 (give or take a few points). Today (based on a recent video I watched on your channel) Connor’s understanding of math would seem to be at least two or three years ahead of where mine was growing up. I didn’t even begin to learn about the order of operations until Algebra 1 in ninth grade (age fifteen) and even at that age I was still struggling with fractions and long division. Connor has made a great deal of progress in all areas since he was around kindergarten age and I would estimate that his current IQ is at least in the 130s (if not 140s). I think that’s intelligent enough for him to get into a group like Mensa (if he chooses). You might want to consider this if Mensa membership would not effect his access to any services that he might still need for social skills or anything else that he may still need to work on. It will be important to consider the pros and cons of this. I think this pretty much sums up my current observations on these topics.

Alastair good job! And Pap’s love the contet

Such great wisdom! Thank you so much for that. We just have to figure out how to do that with Ezra. :-)

Yay Alistair!!!!!🎉

Good job kid 🎉👍🏻

Thank you for sharing this experience, and especially we thank Alistair. Our son is 6 and has challenges with this milestone in life. We have tried so many things, and yet none have been successful. We have also engaged specialists and that has not yielded positive results. I believe our son has an incredible amount of anxiety over the whole process, which may cause the constant regression. I wonder if Alistair felt that way? We tried to make the environment for going as comfortable as possible, though we would appreciate if you have any tips in this regard as well? Two other questions we are hoping you can provide some more background on is: 1) The overnight process. Is there anything different that you do for overnight? 2) When beginning (or beginning again) did you have a timed schedule for trying or was it a verbal request from Alistair for going? We appreciate all you do for the autism community. We feel blessed to have you as a resource. Thank you in advance for your help. - Laura

I had issues with potty training as well and didn't poop on the toilet until I was 6.

On that note,sometimes,diapers are necessary. Even for fully potty trained people. For example,If you or your beautiful children want to go to Space for real,they have to wear diapers. Also,Their continence might be tested. One known date for me is 18 Feb,2019. I had eaten a big Chef Salad the day before,and,I might have contracted something from it. I know so from experience.

well done alistair

I have that book. I need to read it.

I'm trying to learn more about this, I'm wanting to go into the field of helping children with this condition.

Cool looking toy he's got

I have a 5 year old that relapses often...every few weeks..will decide to go in clothing...loves hot wheels...I will try this...thanks! I wanted to be careful with incentives bcuz only incentives work and when upset will use bowels as a weapon...

Good job mate Btw today is my bday 😀 I also have autism but also have epilepsy and visual impairment