Help! How do you stop your special interest to go to sleep??

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Ok so this is a very serious problem for me. Ever since I found out I have Asperger's, ASD has become my special interest. I have been spending most of my time before/after work and on weekends devouring all kinds of information on ASD such as Simon Baron-Cohen's research papers (my alma mater probably wouldn't appreciate that I am contributing so many hits on a Cambridge University affiliated website ), or ASD forums like WP for light reading during meals. I even have research papers saved on my mobile so I wouldn't waste time not studying ASD during the congested morning tube rides to work.

The problem now is - I am so addicted to ASD that sleep is very much a hindrance, so even if I have to wake up before 8am to get to work, I would be reading till 4am or 5am to satisfy my intense craving for knowledge. As a result I have built up this huge sleep debt over the past few weeks and it is very difficult for me to get up in the morning. I am slightly worried that I might not be able to get up in the morning if this continues, but engaging in this special interest just makes me feel so good and relaxing after a day of work with long hours for my job (so for the past 2-3 weeks I have been working at the office from 9am till 10.30pm to midnight and then return home to read about ASD till 4am, and the next day follows the same pattern). So how many of you have the same problem as I do? And do you know any way of stopping your special interest to go to bed?

You need to learn to moderate yourself. By deciding to just go to bed. Takes time, but in the end is to make you go to bed at a certain time. You can always pick it up the next day. Not like programming were you might have a problem to solve. It will still be they the next day to read.

Plus I don't have a job to go to. You need to be rested for your job.

I stop listening to my music at 10:00 PM and I either go to bed right away or I spend time on WP without any background music and go to bed.

I used to be the same way and most of my interest is even in AS. I still have problems getting myself to stop at work because instead of just working I'm also researching about AS at the same time. But at home I have no problem going to bed most of the time. Because I also have an addiction to routine

so now it's...

10pm: shower.

11pm: make lunch for work.

12am: in bed.

There is a lot more to my night routine but that's the basics.