Haircuts

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Will he let you fix his hair? Or how does he do with you being the one to tale care of it. I wouldn't hold him down as that can be more distressing and cause an increase in anxiety. Personally I'd at the very least find an autistic friendly hair stylist and most likely do a scissor hair cut. You can also do this yourself at home if that's the least distressing. I'm autistic and I hated hair cuts growing up so I understand. Luckily I'm a girl so no one forced me to cut it just was forced to have long hair (which I still hate hair touching my ears)

In my experience holding him down will just cause trauma and anxiety for him. If he wants his hair long then my advice is let him have it long, my son has long hair and has done since he was about 3 as he hated getting it cut so much then it was lock down so he couldn't anyway so he grew it out and was a totally different boy, he was so happy. So I'd just leave your boy be and let him have long hair. I was never fussed about my son having his hair cut, it was his dad but now he gets a trim every few months and that's it. When I say trim I mean like 1-2cm off 🤦🏼‍♀️😆 but it's such a big deal for him to even get that cut off.

So he known a few people to cut the child hair when they are in a zone like tv or iPad. Or when they are sleeping they just cut it with scissors. We found a hair dresser that had my sons favourite things and tv. At 1st they had to do it in stages while playing and then getting to know the place he started to get better. The hairdressers themselves well 1 guy wasn’t great saying he had another person after. As he wouldn’t sit in the chair and I said you’ll have to cut his hair where he is. Playing with toys and I told him my son won’t care about that and they said they were autism friendly. My son is 6 and goes to a different one and we know him and he’s doesn’t mind getting it cut. Just need to take spare clothes.

It will probably have to happen while he's asleep like when babies need their nails clipped. I realize that's harder than it sounds, but it might be the only way.

@Heather he doesn't let us touch it. Quick swipe to neaten it up but that's it. May have to try myself. I don't have a clue how to cut boys hair though 😂

@Kirsty he can't communicate with us to tell us what he wants but when he gets agitated he's started to pull his hair again and it irritates him when he's hot. If it didn't bother him I'd leave it

@Vanessa that might help getting him use to somewhere I'll give that a go