A mother is currently seeking help for her six year old boy, Harry Burlton, who is obsessed with eating tearing apart household items into smaller pieces, and swallowing it. Harry's mother is now running a Gofundme page to ask friends, and people to help his son and protecting him from the health risk he is unknowingly doing.
Zoe, 24 year old mother is asking friends around to help her build a soft and padded room that will allow his son be protected from the health risk, and also a "Safespace" that will allow Harry stay safe in the night.
Zoe said ;
We moved into this house about a year-and-a-half ago and as soon as the carpets were down he started pulling them apart. We had to put nails in the carpets to stop him. But he has still managed to rip it apart.
He finds little threads on it that he pulls up and then he eats chunks. He properly eats and swallows them down. We have to get a new one now. I can’t even just laminate the floor because he has picked bits off of my mum’s laminate and made holes wherever the lines join up.
We used to have wallpaper but he peeled it. After we took all of that off the wall he started going for the paint on the skirting boards. He picked little bits off and ate them. There are quite large patches of paint missing. He doesn’t eat food much but he eats everything else.
He managed to rip up a mattress once. I was in bed and when I checked on him he was still asleep. He must have woken up at some point because when I went to check him later there were loads of bits of mattress everywhere.
He had bits all over his face so I could tell he had eaten some. He got ill after that for a couple of days. He also ripped up a brand new quilt yesterday. I went up to check on him and he had all the fluff out of it and it looked like it had been snowing.
If he has something to rip up he will. He just likes to turn stuff into tiny bits so he can run it through his fingers. Even just taking him out in the garden is difficult. I have to watch anything he picks up because he eats the grass, mud and little stones.
He can eat things just fine but he can't tell me when he is unwell, he just cries and I have to take him to the doctor because I don't know what's wrong. It worries me.
Harry was diagnosed with autism six months ago, and shows no interest in toys, instead he is entertaining himself with his hazardous furniture-munching antics instead. Zoe is currenly looking for $8,000 to help little Harry with a "SafeSpace". At the time of the report, she has raised $1205.
If it comes to your mind to help Zoe and Harry stay together, please visit their Gofundme page