Aspies For Freedom

Englishlulu, I was also enuretic until around the age of nine.

Between wetting the bed and my nightmares bedtime was always a very unpleasant experience. I would often fall asleep from sheer exhaustion, laying with the covers over my head, petrified, until I finally drifted off. One night when I was about nine I woke up in the night. I wanted the light on, but not so bright that I couldn't sleep. I left the lamp on with my bathrobe over it to dim the light.  Sometime later that night our little dog woke me up nipping and yapping at my face.  The bathrobe was ablaze.  The room was full of smoke. My throat stung from the smoke, but I would never have woken up if not for that dog. I screamed and my mother ran into the room and quickly tossed the robe into the bathtub. Luckily I didn't burn the house down.

Now that I have children of my own I understand what hell my mother went through with my nighttime problems.

Yes, I think it's fairly common among Aspies, I have also seen a number of posts on this subject on various sites.

Both my sister and my son were bed-wetters all through their primary school years.

I agree, it seems common enough to be normal for us.

Really cute avatar Ryuujin.

Most kids will not be wetting the bed by age 5. Maybe aspies and auties develop the neccessary nerve responses at a later age.

I don't think my sister has enough traits to be considered on the spectrum, but she definitely has some.  She is single, never seemed to have much (if any) interest in relationships, has a long-term obsession with Hawaii, and recently left a well-paid professional job in L.A. to move to a small house in a quiet little town in Maui, where she is trying to work from home as a consultant.

My son has significant Aspie traits, which include the monotone voice, visual thinking, aptitude for math and computers, difficulty switching attention from one task to another, obsessive video-game playing, and occasional rocking/flapping.  His teachers suggested having him evaluated when he was in seventh grade, but I declined because he was getting along reasonably well in school and I didn't think he needed any extra services.  (Since then, he has gone on to high school and is doing very well there.)

I am probably more autistic than either of them, but I was never a bed-wetter.

I haven't developed more slowly, I've just developed unevenly. But I think I'm HFA and not Asperger's. I still wet the bed occasionally, but mostly stopped when I was nine. My favorite movie is the Bedwetting Wizard to the Rescue. My two ASD brothers also wet the bed, but that might be because they have seizures in their sleep. The one who is thirteen stopped wetting the bed about two years ago, and the nine year old still wets the bed most nights. My two non ASD brothers don't wet the bed.

I dont recall ho old I was when I stopped wetting the bed.  I do recall though that trying to go to sleep really really was NOT fun.  This is probably due more to ADD than AS, I spent hours sometimes because I couldn't stop thinking about anything and everything.  I still cant get to sleep without spending around an hour lying in bed trying to quiet my mind.

I have to admit that I also had this problem.  I used to get scolded by my mother for it.  Not one bit of understanding or even trying to understand on her part.  She made me believe it was my fault and tried to use shame to make me stop.

I had the same problem when I was 10, I was often scolded as well, and it's interesting that it's a common Aspie issue. That fortunately stopped when I had my first period and it hasn't happened since. I do have the rare frequent urges to go to the bathroom, but that's mostly due to a UTI or urinary tract infection. When I notice that issue, I get a doctor's appointment scheculed the next day at the latest.

no problems i remember as a kid but do have a relatively weak bladder.  But I donno if i made it weak by concentrating on something else so much that i can forget to go (or alternatively by just being absentminded and forgetting to go)?!  or if it was there all along.

In my case, one side of the family were bedwetters and this was passed onto me without knowing until recently. My bedwetting happened in childhood. Sometimes, if the wettings happened very often, there were no other sheets to spare. I ended up wearing a nappy (diaper) the next night, just to keep the bed dry. Pullups were not around then. Last time this happened, I was 8. The nappies aren't used the night after that, and I wasn't in them for the most of my childhood.

Later on, I think my mum limited liquids before I went to bed, then I outgrew bedwetting independently at 12 years of age.

Yay. I am not alone with it either. ehem Yes, quite embarasing indeed. I only wet my bed sometimes after I experiance strong emotions. It was so much worse in my youth.

I was so stressed in my childhood that I had gotten so many migranes, even very bad ones. Migranes back then were normal to me. They really hurt alot to. Stressful childhood. I can't let myself drink anything after I have had a strong emotion because after I feel feelings that much, my brain needs it's due rest. It makes me sleep so deeply that my body isn't very aware of certain scensations. The bladder being one that is irratatingly numb till the last critical second. It's so annoying that the bladder does that. Suddenly, with in my deep dreaming, there will be this horrid urgency to go.

It's such an annoyance to be jolted into reality by some accident. I am an adult, but I done it all my life. I don't think it ever will end for me. Certain parts of my brain is going to get rest whether others parts of me like it or not. I was actualy high off coffie once and it didn't stop me from a snooze! (High, as in heart pounding, can't relax high) I'm embarased. I had one on my aunts beautiful sofa once in my early 20s. Oh how horrid that was, I'll never forget it! I'm 28, by the way.

Hehehheheh! Well, I sure don't go to bed full. No way, no heck! It likes to fill itself while we are alseep. I always hated how mine tends to let me know at the last split milisecond. I have blown onto the floor a couple of times making a mad dash from the bed.. It's so annoying when it does that, God!

The year I started puberty. Must have been 12. 1983.
My little boy is medicated for epilespy and has night terrors, where he does wet the bed. This happens either if he misses a dose or if he is "outgrowing" the dosage. We don't give him a hard time about this it is not his fault. (He is very matter of fact about it)
My little girl at 6 occassionally is caught short trying to get there. She bursts into tears. I clean her up, calm her down and console her. My ex then gives her a hard time for it. Grrr!

Yeah, not fair for a child to be punished for something they can't help. If you see him trying to punish her for it, stop him. You might check medical supplie stores for bed pads that help keep the bed more dry?