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Aspie1
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19 Jun 2014, 10:41 pm

WelcomeToHolland wrote:
As the for UK thing- maybe it depends on your latitude position. The UK is more northern than the US, so therefore it gets darker sooner there in the winter (I lived there briefly many years ago and I recall it being dark around 4pm sometimes- could be wrong though)

The opposite is also true. It gets darker much later in summer the farther north you go. My sister went on an Alaska cruise last summer, and she told me it was still broad daylight at 10:00 PM, and the sunset was after 11:00 PM. Her ship sailed to around 58 deg. N. (London, by comparison, is at 51.5 deg. N.) She said it was actually not that bright, since the sky was cloudy for most of the day, but it still didn't look like nighttime. So you can imagine how bad summers must be for aspie kids, having to go to bed while it's still broad daylight out, with sun streaming into the bedroom window. In fact, many Alaska residents have blackout curtains in their bedrooms for this very reason.



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20 Jun 2014, 3:21 am

ASDMommyASDKid wrote:

When do they have to wake up in the morning? We used to have to wake him up at 6:45 A.M, now we can let it go until 7:00 A.M.

That brain shutting-off thing is hard. I still have trouble. I think that is also why my son has to talk to himself and play with his fingers at night. I think he needs to wind himself down and that nothing at the end of the day is quite relaxing enough to have it pre-done for him.


Before me, is the short answer. Mim, for example, has been up in the garden skipping when my alarm's gone off. Lamb usually wakes about 7ish or so. He usually clambers into my bed as my alarm goes off. This is only a general rule of thumb though. If Mim has had a very hard time going to sleep, she will sleep until I wake her for school.

We are just approaching the longest day of the year here, and the sun rose at quarter to five this morning, and is expected to set about 9:20 tonight. In the winter though the sun doesn't rise until after 7am and is pretty much set by 5pm.