[insight_parents] Re: educating autistic girls about them selves- from fb

From: sangeetha john <sangeetha.s.john75@xxxxxxxxx>
To: insight_parents <insight_parents@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 15:48:20 +0530

We need to understand we all grow and change as we get older.
Girls also grow and change as they get older.
When a girl is about 10yo, her body starts to change.
They tend to develop pubic hair, hair in the underarm along with
development of breasts and that is when periods start.
This is when the role of a mother comes into play and she turns into more
of a carer than being a mom.
This is the right time when you can start to train your daughter on how to
handle her periods. ( A period is when blood starts to come out of her
vagina for 5 days and nights ).
How will the child of 11 or 12 know about the period?
You will have to make a visual to help her understand.

Will you wait for the periods to ' arrive ' one day and then train her?
No!
You need to start training her from age 10 when she may be an year away
from the crucial day.
How do you do this?
Make her understand that there will be a " Red " spot on her panty and she
will need to ' let ' you or her teacher in school know this.
And to do this, train her by applying a "Red ink " spot on her panty five
days in a month and make her ' wear' a 'pad' inside to train her to wear
them when the actual time comes!

No Touch visual :

To be continued...

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On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 1:33 PM, sangeetha john <sangeetha.s.john75@xxxxxxxxx

wrote:

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Autism, girls with autism and training about puberty :

I have been part of a very healthy debate about training girls with
autism about periods,hygiene and what mothers need to understand about this
crucial and very wonderful part of a girl's life.

If you are a mom of a 9 or 10 yo girl with autism, I would be looking at
what's next for her?

Although she may be only 9/10 years old we need to start planning ahead
for the changes that her body will be going through.

The difficulty with puberty is the 'not knowing' when it would "arrive" it
is prudent to begin programs to start preparing her for the changes she
would inevitably encounter.

To be continued...

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