Question about behaviour

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My daughter who is 10 and has high functioning AS, for the last eight

years she has continued to go in our two bathrooms and use all the lotion,

cologne, soap and so on. She either squeezes it down the sink, into the

bathtub, down the shower drain and so on. She also mixes the liquids together

and makes a mess. She has been told since she started doing this at two that

she is not to do that and at times she has not been allowed in my

mother-in-law's bathroom due to this continued behaviour. The last two months

she has been caught doing this she now says sorry and that she knows not to do

it but her brain tells her to do it and she can't not do it.

She also says that when she takes things that she shouldn't that she knows not

to do it but her brain makes her do it anyways and she cna't stop it.

My question is, is this normal behaviour for a child with AS? I am new to AS

but not to my daughter's behaviour. I know she doesn't comprehend a lot of

things but when asked she can now tell you right from wrong. Does a child with

AS does their brain " force " them to do things that they know not to do?

Thank you,

~BreAnn

Mom to and Josh