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autism and sleep

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Hi I am awaiting a disgnosis, and have been thinking about lots of things in my life one is sleep. All my life I have been a sleepaholic, when I was an early teen I could sleep for 14 hours easy, thats what teens did, but I never grew out of it. I have never woken up in my life feeling refreshed, I could always go back to bed, even at 10am after 12 hours. I have thought this was to do with the depression and feeling that when I was asleep nobody could get to be and make me do things I don't want to? However can it be part of autism? Interested on your views as I can not seem to find much online.

Rob

  • in reply to Bluemoon

    Thanks for the reply. About 20 years ago I had a job I hated and was just like you describe, even contemplated crashing the car on the way to work most days, thankfully they sacked me. Now I get it sometimes when faced with situations I am not comftable with.

    I think the sleep side is me hiding from the outside world so I can be me and don't have to mask anything. There seems lots about autism/mental health about not sleeping but very little about compulsive over sleeping.  My wife sleeps 8 hours then her body gets her up, I could sleep 12 hours plus. I joke with her that if I ever wake up in the morning and she is there I will assume she is dead!

  • Hi!

    I totally understand you because i also have never woken up refreshed. When i open my eyes, my anxiety is 9/10. I feel i'm going to die of anxiety. Then i really have to go to the bathroom, then i get on my daily routine and then the anxiety slowly decreases. When i live home, i am already exausted.

    This is my life. I have to accept that this is my condition. It helps having a daily routine because i say to myself  "be patient, feel the anxiety, this is my autism , this will go away in 30 minutes". 

    You ask if it may be part of autism, i would say yes, of course, it is your autism showing up.

  • Hi, Rob. I'm also awaiting diagnosis. I find I never wake up refreshed either - no matter how much sleep I get, I'm permanently exhausted. I am waiting for some results from the hospital (I had to go through a few investigations) and I struggle with my mental health too, so I'm not sure if my fatigue is down to autism, an underlying physical health condition, my mental health, or any combination of those things!

    I'll be interested to see any responses you get.

  • Hello

    I have added a link below that may help you with your sleep pattern and be of futher assistance to your query.

    www.autism.org.uk/.../sleep.aspx


    I hope this is helpful for you.

    Best wishes

    Lorraine Mod