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Maybe you should give her a special necklace or something that keeps the monsters far away from her or something? My parents used to put crosses on my wall to keep the bad spirits out of my room and it made me feel a lot better.

There are also several different styles/brands of motion sensing night lights. I have not tried any of them, but I have been considering it because the oldest likes to turn on half the lights in the house just to go to the bathroom, but forgets to turn them back off again. Also if the younger two wake up with no lights on at all they panic a little.

I will try motion sensor lights. Hopefully, they don't have LEDs on them. Her room smoke alarm has an LED on it and it took me a long time to convince her that it wasn't a space monster eye looking at her. We opened up the thing so that she could see the battery and the electronics, and see that there were no space monsters.

She likes the motion sensor lights outside on the back patio. She will go out there just to turn them on. That's a good idea.

I will try the special necklace idea, too. She likes wearing bead necklaces. Maybe we could make our own and she could imbue it with powers to keep the monsters away.

maybe if you got him started by just peeing in the toilet,the rest will follow. throw a few cheerios into the bowl and tell him to "sink" them, or buy some tinkle targets (paper bulls-eyes to be placed in the toilet bowl, these might encourage him.

It's the "bible" of toilet training for kids on the spectrum.

I suspect that you need some systematic desensitization. Reward your kid for tolerating being near the toilet, then touching the toilet, then flushing the toilet without sitting on it, then sitting on it fully clothed, etc. Visual supports may be necessary. I've made some progress with my kiddo using a toy wind-up clock. We are currently working on sitting there until the clock stops. He gets to wind it up. I "help" and purposefully make the time a little longer each day or two. Sometimes he goes, sometimes he doesn't.Toilet Training by Maria Wheeler