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AspieUtah
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28 Feb 2016, 10:10 am

Since age 17 years, my characteristics which are related to impaired initiation and continuity of sleep have included behaviors which have frequently disrupted my sleep initiation and continuity on most nights (Tani et al., 2004).

While these characteristics aren’t detrimental to my overall sleep, they do include taking up to two hours to initiate sleep, and another two hours to return to sleep after I awaken (usually in the middle of my sleep cycle). This happens almost every night. While not related directly to the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, my sleep impairments suggest characteristics related to research about impaired initiation and continuity of sleep among individuals with ASD.

These characteristics support the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder under its Section B, subsection 2; “[A]dherence to routines[.]”

So, yes, they are an Aspie “thing.” It is part of the research.


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28 Feb 2016, 10:54 am

Just adding, it also takes me about 2 hours to get to sleep in the first place too, but I don't lack energy physically or mentally.

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28 Feb 2016, 12:22 pm

I don't, I usually go to sleep pretty quickly. If I do wake up it's always an odd number either a 3 or 7 minute of any minute past. And I usually go back to sleep very very quickly.



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28 Feb 2016, 12:29 pm

I have problems with sleep since my teenage years, now and then I sleep well for a few weeks but it doesn't last. Then it's back to disruption, either I can't get to sleep or I wake up too soon.
I have also heard that this is common among artists, we have lots of problems with anxiety and depression to contend with which cannot help.



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28 Feb 2016, 12:45 pm

I have the exact opposite problem as you OP. I'm a nocturnal animal. Very nocturnal. Like, "I see sunrise before going to bed" nocturnal. I'm a zombie if I don't, and if I try changing that, I'm still not going to wake up at a socially normal time and I'm going to sleep too much or not enough. I always return to nocturnal, and if I need to force myself to be active during the day, I have to force the cycle with melatonin, but I'm back to extreme night owl as soon as I cease taking melatonin. I've always been this way and it runs in the family too.
I also need between 1 and 3 hours to fall sleep, and 1 hour to wake up because I'm sleep drunk. I often don't remember at all what happened the first one or two hour(s) after I awoke. Not always, but still often. And it's often the worst when I'm forced to have a diurnal cycle.



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28 Feb 2016, 8:21 pm

EzraS wrote:
I do know people with autism who have sleep issues like that. For myself I wake up several times during the night, but can usually fall back asleep relatively easy.


So do I. There have been times when I've looked at the clock, half-asleep, and panicked because I thought it was one in the afternoon or five in the evening rather than one or five AM. There were many times when I was younger when I'd wake up at midnight or one AM, only notice the minutes, like 46 or 52 or something, and panic because I thought I was late for school. I'd turn on my light, throw my clothes on, and get to the hallway before realising everyone else was still asleep. These days I always find I have more fun things to do than sleeping, so I don't get to bed til two or three AM, then I sleep to noon or one PM, which makes me feel kind of lazy and worthless, but I just don't seem to have the willpower to get to bed earlier.


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28 Feb 2016, 8:36 pm

1:30-2AM, if I got to bed around 8-9PM. I want better sleep. If try to still my mind, the dreams are intense.