Night Stimming/Sleep Problems

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Glad someone got it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukysLBXo4TU


This is the youtube link of the guy that said he has been told that DSPD is common with people with AS

Yeah, see insomnia never made sense to me. Once I'm asleep, I sleep great. It isn't a matter of wanting to and not being able to exactly...it's just...I have this need to be online or look stuff up or read, and it must be satisfied. I also notice I'm pretty worthless early in the morning, better by afternoon, great by evening, peak performance between 8-midnight and I begin my chill phase and stimming around midnight or 1AM.

For a while I went to bed at 11PM every night, woke up at 7AM every day. I had to force myself to do it, yes, but my body accepted it eventually. Then I diverted again.

That is almost exactly what I went and go through. Mornings suck and I wish I could start work around lunch time. For awhile, I forced myself to go to bed and get up early, but my needs took over.

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In high school I power napped sometimes in the afternoon because I was soooo tired because of after-school sports (cross country and track) and then I had problems with math homework, so that made me stay up super late until I could eventually get it done. So it created a cycle of staying up very late, then rising very early (I had Jazz Band at 6:45 in the morning, and then I had to bike to school for 2 miles). I was usually a pretty tired person by the end of each week. In college it's a little the same, but it's not so bad because I don't got to school for 8 hours a day straight; some days I have 3 classes, other days I have 1 class, which is easier for me to manage. Plus most of the time I have cross country in the mornings, which makes me a little more awake and energetic for the day. Nowadays I tend to wake up before my alarm clock wakes me up, which is weird; it's been awhile since my alarm has woken me up lol.

Its nearly impossible for me to get to sleep at night. Normally I get to sleep at some point in the morning hours and have breakfast in the afternoon or late at night Ill have a bowl of cerial. My eating schedule is way off too, I can only eat when Im hungery which is at random, I cant have "fixed eating times".

Sleep whenever I am so inclined (barring outside circumstances that interrupt). Being active at sunrise & sunset is "crepuscular" (dig how the word sounds), when people talk about habits of animals. I'm usually awake for 18 hours, then sleep for 8 hours-which adds up to 26, not the "normal" 24 hour day & night cycle. Actual amounts (# of hrs.) varies, but these are simplified approximations.
Have seen a thing or two about kids w/autism having high daytime melatonin levels & being up all night. Wish the researchers would get crackin' on studying this in adults w/AS ! Though I wouldn't voluntarily take some pill intended to change it-am used to being this way, it's familiar part of me. Admit I do get disoriented/confused, and inconvenienced/disappointed by my hard-to-predict, shifting, & uncommon unscheduled "schedule". Of course, people who keep regular hours have plenty of sleep-related problems, too.


Yes-I graze. Snack constantly-my brain is very busy & demands I provide it with glucose ! Don't "do" meals, can't eat a lot at once nor at any prearranged times.
Each "day" unfolds based on when I got up & when I expect I might be going to sleep, in addition to the fixed (inflexible, outside my sphere of influence) events. Have "order of operations": activities are done according to what preceded (and how recently) plus the current conditions in my mind/body. Not rituals, not done for sake of sameness-routines evolved from my wants & needs, my eating & sleeping doesn't rely on or adhere to the "normal" external cues. I do things how I do them because I want things exactly how I want them: to have things be as good/optimal/tolerable (quality or quantity) as possible-and that's because I'm really irritable & sensitive. Sorry, wandering off-topic ?

Please explain...why do you get SSI?

It was a number in a sea of letters. Ofcourse I got it.

I get SSI, considering you asked so politely, because I qualify for the definition of "can't work."


SSI/SSD is INSURANCE. If you qualify for it you GET it. Just like people with blown-off legs and blinded eyes. That's what our grandparents paid for.


I spent months driving between Utica and Syracuse delivering bank notes half awake as a professional bank courier at age 18. If my company didn't go bankrupt I'd probably have died on the highway when I fell asleep at 9 AM in the morning driving when I should have been going asleep safely in my bed.

Thank you to that person behind me that honked their horn that late night.

lostinguam, I need to ask. Did you ask me why I get SSI because you're curious as to why I get it; or just how I get it?

Just a running commentary.... I woke up 4:00PM monday and it's now 12 noon tuesday.


I'm 100% active as if it's 6 pm normalday.


I'll probably go to bed around 8:00PM.

You don't seem to need SSI. You have babies.



Then take control of your life.



Do you know entire towns have decided to "shift-forward" to accomodate sleepy teens? It's true. Many school districts have acknoledged that kids need to sleep longer. Sadly many have decided not to because it is..... "disruptive."


Disruptive. Disruptive.

http://www.education.umn.edu/Pubs/Resea ... sleep.html



first Google hit with the string school start time

Good article.