Smearing feces on floor, walls, and furniture

My 9 year old son has developed a new behavior. He has had issues with peeing and pooping in his pants but he has started to smear the poop on the walls, furniture, floors. He hides it but the smell gives it away. He doesn't seem to have remorse and continues to do it. How can I teach him appropriate bathroom edicate? I have flushable wipes always handy in bathroom and in his bedroom. I'm concerned for him bc he already has difficulty making or keeping friends, I'm afraid children are so mean that they would make fun of him, "the smelly kid".
How can I approach this matter in a positive way rather than negative? Do I need to get him in counseling? Please any suggestions are helpful. Thanks.

[myadvice]

sometimes you need to smack your kid's ***, no matter the age! That is unacceptable behavior and you should NOT put up with it. Let your child know you mean business!

[confusedmumof2]

Make a social story and read it to him everyday or have him read it everyday to you, out loud, about what is acceptable procedures in the bathroom.Step by step, from the time he pulls down his pants til he washes and dries his hands. Make a picture with a red circle around it that shows no smearing (and also says no smearing poop). Tape it to the wall, somewhere where he can see it. Remind him each time he needs to use the bathroom. Inspect each time he uses the bathroom if possible (I know it's hard to know every single time he goes). Praise him when you find no smearing. Kids with Asprerger's LOVE to be praised. Many of them are pleasers. Any negetiveness will NOT work...keep it all positive! This took me a long time to figure out poop issues with my son. I finally stopped making a big deal out of what he did wrong and only praised for what he did right and he got use to the praise and now doesn't have any poop issues.

With the right attitude, this will pass! Good luck!

[Jennyboomboom]

Holy Mother!

How on earth can you give advice that a way to handle your Autistic childs smearing behavior is to SMACK them?!

Way to making a disgrace of yourself!

How about some helpful advice like consult with a Behavior Therapist!

I joined this MedHelp only to blow you up! As if dealing with Autism isnt hard enough for parents and caregivers but then to be searching the Web for help and come across what you wrote OMG sick sick sick!!!

[student1001]

I'm a student begining to work in a group home with Autism spectrim looking to find techniques to work with feces smearing.....individual likes to smell

[LynneAV]

Well,  my mother smacked ALL that stuff out of me (not that I ever wanted to smear feces that I recollect), and it worked to produce a functioning, tax-paying and self-sufficient, successful, non-disability-collecting citizen. Not necessarily happy all the time or having an easy life, but definitely self-sufficent and proud of that.  I am not advocating ANYthing here, but just sayin' it can be done ... it depends on whether you can guarantee the patient  life-long babysitting after the parents are dead or too old to care for them as to whether or not you are going to allow that behavior.  My mother was of the "sink or swim" mentality.

[bothsidesnow]

My son is 35 now but spread feces when he was 8, and had encoparesis, but back then ADD, OCD, and all thsoe other disorders were still fairly new and the internet did not exisst. We did not get the adderall (adderrall). He had some counseling but I am here to tell you that he is still an unhappy man, unable to form relationships, rigid in his beliefs and judgements of others. If BHD works, do it.  Do something though, but "smacking" is out of the question. The root of our problem was a broken marriage, my own difficulties, no father, etc, etc.  And I am pretty sure some of it is genetic in some way, because I was "ADD" or "ODD" in the 50s and 60s.