Most challenging part of the day...

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For me it's the morning because of my sound
sensitivities.

A blissful quiet in the dawn of day.
A ringing bursts into life,awakening me
I try to shut off this deviant ringing but to no avail.
I successfully do so after the 5th attempt.
I hear the bed crumbling under my weight.
I hear the same sound around the house.
Blissful quiet ensues.
A humming sound takes over,overwhelmingly strong.
I can hear the door cracking and squeaking as I place my palm upon it.
It opens.
The buzzing gone,I can hear the clock going "tick tock" over and over.
The shower dripping,the sound of my feet moving.I hear the dogs outside,the birds.
I turn on the shower,making it burst into life.
"SHHHHHHHHHH".
I hear everything,making it hard to concentrate.I turn off the shower and now the I can hear the water drip again.
I get clothed,hearing the house burst into life with the tv on.I brush my teeth adding to the sounds I encounter.The water rushing down as I clean my brush.The toothpaste as I squeeze it.The marble sink's wooden base cracking as I look forward,placing my elbows on top of it.
I get out,the television' sounds intensified.
I hear the coffee machine hiss as it makes coffee,as it evaporates water to do what it's made to do.It starts to pour the coffee.
The coffee machine finished pouring coffee.
I take a mug,it's ceramic nature clicking against the marble surface.I pour milk into the mug making a splashing sound.
I put it in the microwave hearing the humming of it:
"Hmmmmmm"
After a minute beeping ensues:
"BEEEP BEEEP BEEEP"
signalling the milk is done.
I pour in the coffee,the different temperatures causing a hiss.
After this I'm ready for my day.
Now borderline insane,I retreat into the most Blissful place in the house.
I drink my coffee in peace to see if I can relax and unwind.My efforts being fruitless.
I go to the kitchen to hear every sound in my house again.This time accompanied by the "coquis"(coh-keys) singing:
"Coh-key,coh-key,coh-key"

Same for me...morning when I first wake up is the worst because that's when my anxiety is the highest and I don't have any medicine in me...also because I usually have my seizures early in the morning and late at night.

It's the morning for me too, but because of executive functioning challenges. From my earliest memory even as a school child, I've found it very, very difficult to get ready for my day within a time limit, and it doesn't matter how early I get up or how much time I allow, I can tend toward "loss of time" where I went into my own world and don't know how half an hour slipped by. I have trouble with transition from one activity to another and I can zone out and lose track of time.

I obviously manage to overcome it daily but it's an intense struggle just to do so.

I find it even harder on a weekend for some reason.

I can relate to that too -- I wonder if it's because at the weekend there is less pressure to be on time if there is no work to go to? When I know I don't have time restrictions, my time management can get even worse because I take liberties with all that freer time.

Executive functioning.
I struggle with this as well but not as strongly as my sensitivities to sound.

On the weekends, all of the usual sound-pattern are different. So while some are lessened, they aren't what I'm subconsciously expecting and ready for. Things like power tools, yard tools, people out and about. Other people in the house making sounds they don't normally make because they don't have to be somewhere.

By the way, excellent description of what waking up feels like to the sound-defensive, Rundownshoe14.

Another vote for morning here, anxiety very much at it's highest then, and this can be intensified by a very cold, sunless day.

Anytime, just waking up from sleep.
For some odd reason, the longer I slept, the likely I get some sort headaches or more things.
If I slept in a cold room, I may or may not get sick, which is fortunately lasted less than a day that it could end in an hour.
These headaches makes me more sensitive to stimuli, moody, less focused, and feel lazy. I rarely feel rested or refreshed.

And more things after waking up: possible backache or body stiffness, faster heart beat that made me sort of vigilant despite that I recall no dreams (nightmares?), allergy rhinitis and sinusitis worsens that may or may not bother me for several hours to days.


So.. Yes, I grew up hating the need sleep other than waste of time knowing this happens. Thankfully it didn't bother more than just in the morning or at least anytime before I have to do something productive.

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School day mornings - Extreme executive disfunction and severe disorientation, all crammed into a half hour of hell yay yay.

In the late afternoon/ early evening, specifically when I am hungry. And particularly when my toddler is whining.

All other things being equal, mornings challenge me the most. I'm often clumsy, physically a tad shaky, and emotionally fraught and negative. I don't know exactly why. I've found several plausible reasons. One is simply that it's a big change, and the problems of change for Aspies are legendary. I'm rather better at coping with the change of going back to bed, though I clearly don't like that either, and I often delay it as long as possible until I'm so tired that the biological need for sleep overrides the hatred of change. It could help explain why I get up and go to bed later and later if I don't apply self-discipline.