I have a 3 year old son who eats paper. He started when he was about 18 months old. I though at first that he was still teething and it would go away within a few months. It's actually gotten worse. It's almost like an addiction. I don't know if he has control of it or not. Some days, he refuses food, but will eat paper. He will eat any paper he can get his hands on. I can't even trust him with a book. He seems to prefer toilet paper, which is kind of causing a problem with toilet training. He's more concerned with eating the toilet paper than he is with using the toilet. I've tried giving him a snack when I see that he's going after paper, which works temporarily. Should I worry? Is this as abnormal as it seems to me? He also has a speech delay, and was a late walker. He's been to the neurologist, geneticist, and is currently in speech therapy. Doctors say he's probably just a late talker. They can't find anything else wrong with him as far as his brain or chromosomes. Could his eating paper be a symptom of some kind of deficiency? I've just never heard of this kind of thing before. Please help.