How much sleep do you need?

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I've read that a lot of people on the spectrum need less sleep than the average person and I'm wondering how true it is. For myself if I don't set an alarm to wake me up, it doesn't matter how early or late I go to bed, I'll usually wake up almost exactly 9 hours later. The minimum I can get by on is 6 hours and I can't do it for more than a couple of nights in a row.

Usually about 10hrs. (never happens, daughter wakes us up at 6:30am). Actually, its more like I wake up at a certain time. My brain doesn't really start functioning until about 10am. I could go to sleep at 7am and get up at 10 and feel just as good as if I went to bed at 11pm. I think it has to do with the melatonin/seratonin balance. I seem to be doing better on less sleep as I get older. Don't know if that's due to aging effects or out of necessity (I have to get up at 3am to get to work on time).
Now that I think about it, Tuesday I went to bed at 9pm, woke up at about midnight, laid in bed until 2:30 then said the heck with it and went on to work. I wasn't really tired at all on only 3hrs sleep, but I'm sure my insomnia was Aspergers related because a weather front came through. My daughter and I both have bad days when the weather changes.

2-6 hours

I generally need somewhere from 5-7 hours, but on weekends I sleep for about nine hours. (On weekdays I get up at 4 AM, just so I can have three hours of relaxing time before school.)

It seems to have jumped around a lot for me.

About 8 hours when I was a kid (from age 13 and younger). But then I started to need more sleep, sleeping from 10 to 12 hours (about 10 on average). I usually need 9 to function at my best, minimum, tho more recently I've been getting by on 8....

The absolute worst I can handle and still be semi-functional is 6 - but the less sleep I get, the worse the headaches are.....

As long as I go to bed at around 10pm, I usually need about 9 or 10 hours of sleep. Sometimes 11.

But I have a hard time getting any less than that.

about ten hours to feel my best but i am used to functioning on less than five hours due to sleep problems.

it would be interesting to see this made in to a poll.

5-7 hours during weekdays, 8-10 hours in the weekend.

What I need and what I get are 2 different things!! !

I need lots- ten hours- to feel fully rested. I'm OK on six to ten, and I can manage on four to six. On less than four I'm a wreck.

When I'm depressed I tend to oversleep if that's possible. I sleep twelve or thirteen hours a night to avoid having to wake up.

I needed 10 hours when I was younger.
Now (in my late 30s) 5-7, usually 6

I wake up every 2 hours so it's hard to know how much sleep I get. I have to "be in bed" for 8 hours minimum but I'm not asleep for a lot of that time. Cumulatively I probably get 6, but it's not enough. I really do need 8 cumulative hours but it's hard for me to get it .

I usually need 9-10 hours of sleep in order to feel fully rested. Which I think is unhealthy. Perhaps I should try to get used to getting less sleep.

I try to get 8, although we all here have sleep problems (usually falling asleep or staying asleep) Right now I am stimmed up and cant fall asleep to save my life, but then i will be up two or three times during the night.
My oldest sleeps like a rock and would sleep all day if you let him, the youngest has a hard time going to sleep (like his Mummy) he gets over stimed too.
We all have a hard time getting up and are not morning people at all.

*looking for the melatonin...* now I know I put it somewhere..