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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

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  • 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.

  • 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!

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  • 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!

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