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Posted By A Son-Rise Message Board Participant on November 16, 1999 at 02:51:57:
Oh boy, this seems to be a fun side effect of Son-Rise programs :). We went through a year and a half of nudity (actually he would keep his diaper on most of the time but that was all). At the time he was also agoraphobic so it wasn't that big of a problem since we didn't leave the house much but twice I took him out in only a diaper since it was totally impossible to get clothes on him without a major battle. One Christmas, I came back to his playroom to find his cousins stripped down to their undies and Curty in a diaper having a blast. Thought we'd have to start a nudist colony. We tried it all, the attitude, the excitement, the dress-up games plus some really goofy songs about different clothes. One of these is saved for posterity in a video of me dancing around the room with underwear singing how underwear feels so good on your bottom. He'll probably use it someday to explain to his psychiatrist why his childhood made him so warped, hee hee.
What finally got the clothes on him was a combo of things. Most importantly, we worked to reduce his over-sensative tactile system. We did lots of brushing, rub with different textures, play in various textures, etc. I still bump up the brushing on his arms and legs right before a change of season/clothing. I remember Temple Grandin saying that it took her weeks to get used to changing from shorts to pants and vice versa and that the brushing helped.
We also put different textured mats all over the floor and walked on them, rolled on them, wore them, etc. At the time I had a seamstress as a volunteer who made all sorts of different outfits and material things for us to play with. We also eliminated as many allergies as possible from his diet since I remembered really hating the feel of a tag on my shirt until I removed corn from my diet.
Then, after much trying and giving up several times, one day I just happened to make up a stupid song just when he was ready to go for it and I'd sing it while placing the shirt first on his head and then yanking it off quickly, then leaving it on longer, then over his face, then on his body, etc. until it went all the way on. After that asking him to put on clothes to get things he wanted worked until he was used to wearing them again.
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