Changing clothes 11 year old
My 11 year old is cognitively, emotionally and mentally developmentally delayed. His last testing showed he functions between 3 and 6 years old depending on what the task is.
Our current issue is hygiene, specifically changing clothes. It's not a specific item or fabric or anything we can pinpoint but he will NOT change his clothes. He will put on the same outfit he wore the day before unless we hide it then he will happily pick a new outfit.
Roll in the grass? Play in the mud? Spill food on it? Have a bathroom accident? None of it matters and he will put on the same underwear, same shirt, same pants, same socks. We do *not* care what he wears. He picks his own clothes when we shop, he picks his own outfit. We've tried different fabrics, different detergents, different methods with help from pediatrician, psychiatrist, his therapist for speech, occupational, and counseling. This isn't new, it's been this way for years.
The most foolproof method we have is a box under our bed and after the bedtime fight (the usual im not tired I need a drink, I gotta pee from him and his brother) we we grab his dirty clothes and put them in there. He'll look for his dirty clothes for about 20 minutes then pick a new outfit without too much fuss other than him and brother arguing over who's shirt is whose.
Does anyone have any ideas we could try? I don't want to go into what we have tried. I'll try anything again. I need to get this dirty clothes box out of my room but it's the only place we have that he hasn't found it and no, putting the clothes outside is not an option and neither is daily washing because we need to use a laundry mat.