Do we need more sleep than NTers?

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I think I need more sleep because of the psych meds I'm on. I didn't need as much sleep as a kid & teen when I wasn't on meds. I was also very stressed from going to skewl then & living with my parents & my mom was very critical of my various disabilities, issues & quirks. I'm living with my girlfriend nowadays & am alot happier & I'm not working or have much going on in my life & I need more sleep. I'm on 4 psych meds thou. I need the meds cuz I was very unstable before them & screwed up both my 1st two relationships due to my unstable mental health.

I've always needed much more sleep than everybody else I know, except my AS daughter. I sleep about 10 hours at night.

Now you know another person who needs the same. Always slept well right from when I was a baby.

I can go to bed at 9pm and then sleep until 11am the next day. Toilet visits and drinks in between.

Today I was woken by the cats at 7:30am, so I fed them and then went back to bed until 10:30am.

I'm a very light sleeper so I do wonder if that's why I need many hours of sleep.

I don't have an issue with sleep. Every now and then I'll get one night out of the blue that's kinda restless but its not a continuous issue for me.

I slept from 11:30 to 10:30 again last night.
I hope I wake earlier tomorrow.

Im so jealous. Everyone on here gets like several hours of sleep a night every night ㅠ.ㅠ

I'm exactly like that too. I wake up many times in the night (and in the morning) and go back to sleep again.

i'm always waking up randomly during the nights where i get like, 5 hours of sleep before thr days where i have to get up for work at like 5 AM

sucks


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I'm having this issue too. I need to buy a white noise machine. I can't maintain a sleeping a cycle of 3-4 hours per night.

Not an aspie thing, not a woman thing, not a cold weather thing...

Turns out my cat has been waking me at 7 and I've been thinking it was about 4 and going back to sleep for 3 hours.

Trying not to be angry with her but that's annoying.

you might be better off getting yourself a largish HEPA air filter with negative ion generator, it will do three things-
*generate a nice dense brown noise which masks external [outside] sounds effectively
*the dense brown noise will be relaxing, soporific
*the negative ion generator [helps the filter trap airborne contaminants] is also soporific
*the cleaner lighter bedroom air is also soporific
*most units have operating lights which can one way or another be dimmed if you don't want a night light.
it is "win-win."