Don't like being waken up.

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In fact it infuriates me. I'm at my worst when someone makes me wake up. I have to do it on my own and that is difficult enough. I've smashed a few alarm clocks.
Is anyone else the same way?

I can't have a sounding alarm clocks. I hate any ringing noises.

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Nor can I. It is the beeping ones that really get to me though. The sound makes me feel really sad like some great tradgedy has occurred. How weird am I?

Does your tummy fill with adrenaline?

Sorry I meant beeping. I hate both and also most clicking like clocks or pipes.

OMG, no that is not weird ya'll. I freak out, and my heart starts pounding out of my chest. My central nervous system goes into the fight mode. I love waking up to nice music. I used to have an alarm clock with nature sounds that I liked. I broke it though.

I find my cats are the most effective alarm clock there is! Much better than any mechanical one.

I hate being woken up in the morning. But unless my mum didn't make me get up, I'd just stay in bed till I was desperate for the toilet or Flo started crying at the door. Mornings are the worst time of the day.

I like waking myself up.

Tim

It's natural for people (including NTs) to experience a brief episode of the fight or flight response when suddenly woken from deep to moderate deep sleep, even if it's at a routine time. Your response is due primarily to what stage of sleep you're in when you awake, and if your fight or flight response is triggered (like being touched abruptly or by an alarm going off), you will naturally react with irritability or a slight surge of adrenaline. This is nothing out of the ordinary. If this happens to you regularly then:

1) You are probably not getting as much sleep as you individually need (which can vary from 6 to 10 hours, on average), so you end up having to wake up or be woken up during your deeper sleep cycle

2) Your sleep patterns are probably too erratic and so your natural cycle of falling asleep/light sleep/deep sleep/light sleep/waking up is out of whack

3) Although the first two are MOST likely to be the case, in a few cases, people with pre-existing anxiety disorders may have a problem with sleep in general (and this can be often be treated effectively with SSRIs, provided, of course, they are sleep enough and at a regular time)

Most people, even those with ASDs, should be able to sleep and awake normally if they get enough sleep and stick to a routine sleep schedule. Sleep is hugely important to your health, espeically your neurological and psychological health. Yet most people treat it like it's some sort of inconvenient distruption of one's life and so they failt to give it the prioroity it deserves. So of course, this behavior will inevitably lead to problems, like feeling stress and anxiety when you have to wake up. However, this simple logic is largely lost on the modern masses today, including many ASD people. Go figure.

Sometimes people have to wake me up, but unfortunately, it's when I am in the middle of "the most wonderful dream".

Tim

i sleep in almost every morning. im so happy i dont have a 9-5.

In my family, sleep was sacred. We all had our ways to get up for work but if somebody had to wake us, they'd do it in whispers. I did once buy an extremely quiet alarm clock, don't know where that is now. These days dawg wakes me by licking my hands. Much better.

I'm horrible in the mornings.

People have learned to stay away from me for at least 30 mins.

My alarm clock has 'b*****s Brew' by Miles Davis playing on it. It's my mobile phone because I have broken a few.

I don't like being woken up either.

I had a meeting today, so I had to wake up early. But, I had no problem with that.

I don't mind being woken up as long as I'm allowed to "wear off the sleep" for 1 hour or so.

I don't have problems with alarm clocks, either. I don't hear them no matter how loud they are. My senses turn off when I'm asleep.

I hate to be woken up before i'm ready, i'm a b***h from hell and won't speak for a couple of hours.....

If the alarm goes off i'm disorientated for quite a while, when i was working i would sometimes work a morning shift which started at 7am which meant i would have to be up at 5.30am! I don't know how on earth i managed to stay awake, sometimes when i got into work i'd have a sneaky 10 minute nap when i was meant to be making beds or doing laundry. LOL