My son is 21 and was just recently diagnosed with aspergers after years of doctors misdiagnosing him. He is also a recovering addict going now on 8 months of sobriety after a two to three year struggle of drugs that also came out of no where. He just recently started throwing things away, shredding very important papers of my mother in law which was the first incident, then yesterday I came home to him taking a huge bag of trash out luckily I stopped him but what I didn't realizewas he had… read more
My son throws away too and he has limited. But based on our observations and a functional behavior analysis, we were unable to come to a real conclusion. In my son's case, the reason really is in his head. You may want to have your experts do a behavior analysis to see if they can help you uncover this mystery. Of course if he is somewhat verbal, the right questions will lead you to it.