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Sorry if this has been asked before but does having aspergers/austism affect or change sleeping patterns? I have just read an article that states children with aspergers don't produce enough melatonin. Does anyone know if that continues on into adulthood?. I take hours to get to sleep every night and on average I wake up 5 to 6 times a night.

I can't say I have trouble getting to sleep, Confused. It takes me 10-20 minutes to fall asleep after I go to bed. I usually wake up in the morning, about 7.

The racing thoughts problem keeps me up.

I sometimes have trouble getting comfortable to go to sleep, but once I am comfortable I fall asleep pretty quickly, less than 20 minutes

Wait, you're supposed to stop thinking when you fall asleep? Why didn't anyone tell me that? No wonder I'm always so dog-tired when I wake up!

A racing mind along with promises i haven't kept.

TheSunAlsoRises

This is quite a common discussion point. A lot of aspies report trouble getting to sleep.

I dont drop off very easily at all, and can wake up at the slightest disturbance. I normally go to bed somewhere between 11pm and 3am and then wake up around 6:29 If I get to sleep early (ie. 11) than I'm quite likely to wake up at around 1:40 for a while. If I go to sleep later (1:30) then I might wake up at 4:20. I have been very precise with times, but it's surprising how often this is the case.

I do tend to fall asleep easier on a Friday evening and sleep in saturday, so my average sleep a week tends to even out s little.

Jason

I have recently been having sleep problems which is an unusal thing for me unless I am suffering extreme stress [which I don't think I am].
I am of the belief that Jupiter and Venus are the culprits in the whole matter.

^ this, plus every tiny sound startles me.

I go through cycles. I get a lot of early morning waking, up at 4:30 or 5:00 then tired for the rest of the day. Other times I go to bed straight from work and can't seem to get enough sleep. If I am absorbed in making music or studying I can stay up all night. Sleep is pretty messed up most of the time. It's exhausting

I can't maintain a sleep cycle. I can't force myself to sleep at a certain time, and I can't get up at a preset time if I'm not finished sleeping, otherwise I feel sick/dizzy all day afterwards.

If I need to be awake at a certain time, I need to know several days in advance, so I can try to stay up later and later each day before the deadline, going to sleep later usually means waking up later, so I do that in increments until I've cycled through to being up at the right time.

I can't maintain that at all though. After a couple of days I'll be awake at some different set of hours again.

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I sleep like a baby; I wake up every half-hour and cry.

The worst bit for me is quite often I feel myself falling asleep. It is a falling sensation and that generates a panic response, which wakes me up, often bolt upright shouting out. The wife doesn't like it for some reason.

Jason

The amount of time it takes for me to get to sleep seems to depend on how long a day it's been. Past few years my schedule has for the most part been going to bed around 4 am and waking up around 2 pm, though on mondays I get up at 9 or 10 am to take out the garbage. On those days I can definitely feel a difference in having been up longer.

Me too! I don't like the "falling" sensation.

I slept 12 hours last night. XD

Um, I don't have trouble falling asleep most of the time. But I have trouble waking up. Always have. It kind of traumatized me for life.