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As a person with Aspergers how often is insomnia effecting you?
Every night 55%  55%  [ 24 ]
Every week 25%  25%  [ 11 ]
Every month 7%  7%  [ 3 ]
Never and issue/Almost never as issue 14%  14%  [ 6 ]
Total votes : 44

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05 Aug 2013, 10:55 am

Keni wrote:
I get to sleep no problem, but wake up after only a couple of hours.


This is how it works for me. I fall asleep early while putting my son to bed (which means we're cramped into a twin bed together! Luckily he's still small...), then wake up after a few hours and can't get back to sleep. I'm too sleepy to actually get up, but can't fall asleep. So I stay in bed awake for a few hours before I can finally get back to sleep. Of course, I'm then exhausted when I wake up in the morning...



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05 Aug 2013, 10:59 am

No insomnia, but I too have a weird sleep cycle. I might have insomnia if I were trying to sleep at a particular time every night, but my sleep cycle just keeps changing on me. I go to bed when I'm tired and usually can sleep for eight hours (sometimes with interruptions), even if that means sleeping from 6 am to 2 pm or 8 pm to 4 am. It's not quite as unpredictable as it sounds, as it usually works more like that for some weeks I get tired at 2 am, a few weeks later it shifts to 4 am, then 6 am, then 8 am - that's when I'll try to stay up for more than 24 hours so as to be able to shift it back to early evening, before it all starts over again.



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05 Aug 2013, 12:40 pm

Aspendos wrote:
No insomnia, but I too have a weird sleep cycle. I might have insomnia if I were trying to sleep at a particular time every night, but my sleep cycle just keeps changing on me. I go to bed when I'm tired and usually can sleep for eight hours (sometimes with interruptions), even if that means sleeping from 6 am to 2 pm or 8 pm to 4 am. It's not quite as unpredictable as it sounds, as it usually works more like that for some weeks I get tired at 2 am, a few weeks later it shifts to 4 am, then 6 am, then 8 am - that's when I'll try to stay up for more than 24 hours so as to be able to shift it back to early evening, before it all starts over again.


I have it like that too. My body clock shifts all the time. It is a known issue for some people who are said to have a 25 hour sleep wake rhythm. Other people have a 23 hour one and it causes them to be very tired in the evenings.



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06 Aug 2013, 1:51 pm

This thread just reminded me to take my melatonin tablet (just started taking them this week). I'm hoping they will get me back into a "normal" sleep pattern. Lately I've been going to sleep around 5am and waking between 1pm and 3pm. Luckily I don't have a job to get up for these days or I'd be screwed. That said, I've never been a morning person.


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