Hi everybody, My son keeps hiding things and putting thing in strange places why does he do this?

[Beauty43]

My son is 18 years old

[151bill]

Hi. My son did the same sort of thing when he was 17 or 18 ( he is 30 now). I didn't know why then and I still don't why. My best guess is that he wants some control over his life and environment. For my son it was a stress reducing action. I know this wasn't much help. Autism is a guessing game. Sometimes you guess right. Good luck. Bill

[Springsong]

The teenage years are all about transition from childhood into adulthood. I can recall as a teenager wanting to keep certain things 'private' so trying to 'hide' them from family/friends. It was also the school telling us they were giving us more 'freedom' to study as we were 'young adults' that made me more aware of 'wanting privacy & security for my possessions' so I would try to identify 'safe places' to keep things such as my jewellery, my bank card, my favourite books, my favourite music....somewhere I would know that was where to find them (my mum used to refer to 'my organised mess').

[silverstone]

What does he say about it?

[t0tally-bewilldered]

my stepdaughter does, sadly some times she just looks astonished as to why you think she has done it, for example plates with rotting food on them in a drawer within a wardrobe. Sometimes she has even accused me of planting things because she 'would never do such a thing' it is a total mind game.