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XP-Major Clothing Fit Issues - Sensory Disorder?
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DS1 has always had some quirks/issues with how things fit, and it mainly would be about wearing socks or shoes. But he also would only wear certain pants or shirts. It was something easily fixed though since there was always another item of clothing we would offer that he would be fine with.
Over the past few months, his issues have progressively gotten much worse. Getting dressed is a daily battle. He cries about how things fit and feel (he feels all the stitches in socks and shirts, so he cries about how everything will have a stitch). It is becoming so hard to get him dressed and out of the house, and now we're repeating this at night with getting him into pajamas. However, once we finally do get over things, and he goes out to school or just gets out of the house, he'll wear the clothes all day no problem and not complain about them. It's that initial getting things on and getting out part. He's also had some major issues with huge meltdowns lately that we are having a hard time with helping him control.
I've looked online and the main thing that jumps out at me is sensory processing disorders (I should add that we do have a call into his pediatrician). But I'm wondering if anyone has an LO with this. I'm not sure if he fits it or not because, like I mentioned, once he gets out and is in the clothes, he doesn't spend the day trying to get out of them. But it is a huge, crying, long, frustrating battle every day to get dressed that we are just looking for ideas on what we could do to help make things better!
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Re: XP-Major Clothing Fit Issues - Sensory Disorder?
My DS has SPD and has trouble with his clothing as well.
One thing that his therapists have suggest for me and has work is helping DS is to prepare him for his clothes. So for example I will tell DS here is your shirt, let's get you ready to wear it. I will then take the shirt and rub it on his back and tummy or his pants and rub it on his legs. Just telling him we are preparing his skin for his clothes. So in a way he is getting a feel for the texture of the item and then making it a game.
DS still refuse to wear a few of his clothes, but I know what works for him and will continue to try the other clothing items in the future.
I also have an app that is called Smart Chart. It is like a reward chart. So if DS is having a tough time with a clothing item I drop it and will approach him differently on another day. For example he refused to wear a button up shirt. Any time he sees a button up shirt he would run screaming! I needed him to wear one for wedding and was nervous I wouldn't be able to get him the shirt. I then show him the app with the reward chart and said, 'if you try this on you may push a star and earn a reward." So I make it a game and did this over the course of a couple of weeks. He would only need to just try the shirt on for a small amount of time which increased over the course of two weeks. By the time the wedding came around he was fine and able to wear the shirt.
I have purchased so many clothing items that he refuse to wear. The worst part is he has a hard time just trying on a clothing item for me and will rip the tags! The tags really bother him. So I am stuck with so many new item! haha! That is a different story.
Good luck with everything. I hope all this made sense.