How can I get my son to brush his teeth?

Q: How can I best teach my aspie the importance of personal hygiene and teach him to tend to those tasks automatically?

Thressa

A: You know, I actually asked almost that exact question to the Asperger's LiveJournal community a few weeks ago because I can never remember to brush my teeth. The discussion about it can be found here:here

In general, I think your best bet is to have a checklist for after he gets up and before he goes to sleep at night. Personally I tend to forget to look at the checklist, but perhaps if I had been trained from an early enough age I wouldn't forget.

Wiley